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by deathanatos 468 days ago
Another way to look at that would have been visible to non-calculus bearing ancients:

  A = πr²
  C = πD
… why do we arbitrarily use r in one equation, and D in the other? (… because we're using the wrong constant, and it bugs us, and we're sweeping that under the mathematical rug.)