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Why the area of a circle is pie r square

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The usual definition of pi is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, so that the circumference of a circle is pi times the diameter, or 2 pitimes the radius. ... This give a geometric justification that the area of a circle really is "pi r squared".

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