Circumference
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In 1897, the House of Representatives in the US state of Indiana unanimously passed legislation that redefined the calculation of the value of pi , the ratio of the
circumference
of a circle to its diameter.
More example sentences with word circumference
If you know the
circumference
of a circle, and you have two points on it, all you need to know is the distance between those two points, and you can extrapolate the
circumference.
We measured the
circumference
of their waist, compared to the
circumference
of their hips.
Again, we gathered objective measurements of people's physical fitness, measuring the
circumference
of their waist and the
circumference
of their hips, and we had them do a few other tests of fitness.
1,600 years before Columbus set sail, Eratosthenes not only realized the earth was round, but calculated its
circumference
and diameter within a few miles of their actual size.
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