n00b math hypothesis

Electric2Shock · (This post was last modified: January 23rd, 2015 at 4:10 PM by Electric2Shock.)

There's this thing going around my head.

Is it possible of any circle C(O, r), an arc of say 'L' units can approach a straight line when the radius 'r' nears infinity?

Observing that any arc of length 'L' becomes closer to a straight line as radius 'r' increases.

Electric2Shock · January 26th, 2015 at 4:05 PM

That's kind of what I WAS trying to point out...

**Darth-Apple** · January 26th, 2015 at 6:31 PM

Well, to me, that's like trying to say that 2.01 is 2. Or that 2.000000000001 is 2. As far as our ability to imagine detail is concerned, there comes a point when we don't care, and that for practical purposes they are the same, but in the world of math, 2.00000000000000000000000000001 is never the same thing as 2. Tongue

Electric2Shock · January 28th, 2015 at 2:44 PM

Well, it's true, otherwise division by 0 would have been possible long ago.

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