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Originally Posted by 1010011010
CSfilm, I don't think I've ever seen it stated that it's the circumference:diameter ratio of a circle on a flat plane. Not saying this isn't the understood definition of 3.14159..., but that technically you could define a different surface, pick a point, draw a circle around it, and calculate different values of pi.
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You can take any circle, and divide its circumference by its diameter. You get pi every time. A circle that doesn't do this isn't a circle by all modern definitions. If you can prove this wrong, you just broke math.