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by marginalia_nu 1588 days ago
The author says the problem is that we have a hard time estimating areas. That is hard, but the problem isn't estimating the area. What you is segments of a circle's circumference. You can unroll a piechart into something like this, and it's still kind of difficult to figure out the proportions:

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