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Why do all circles share the same pi?

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Answer: Circumference scales with diameter

Circumference scales with diameterCorrect! If you scale a circle up or down, both its circumference and diameter scale by the same factor. Their ratio stays constant, and that constant is pi.

Big circles curve lessWrong. Large circles do curve less locally, but that is not why circumference divided by diameter stays the same.

Only perfect circles use piWrong. Pi is a geometric constant for circles in general, not only for some imaginary perfect special case.

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