July 2021
Intermediate to advanced
312 pages
11h 24m
English
Content preview from Make: Geometry
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If you are more than 12 times zones west of Greenwich, the convention is to
start counting (at Greenwich) to the east, so we talk about 120°E longitude,
not 240°W. However, to follow the instructions here, figure it out going east
and add 360°. For example, if you followed these steps and got 242°W, that’s
the same as 118°E.
SUMMARY AND LEARNING MORE
In this chapter, we applied concepts from previous chapters to think about
the area of a circle. We spent some time thinking about the biggest polygons
that could fit into a circle, and the smallest ones that could fit around a circle,
and used those to estimate pi and understand where the formula ...