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What is a radius? Radius of a circle

By |2018-05-10T10:38:52-07:00July 29th, 2017|Math|

What is a radius? The geometry of a circle What is a radius? The radius of a circle is the distance from the center point to the edge of the circle. It's the same distance anywhere on the circle, because the circle has radial symmetry. So it doesn't matter where you measure the radius on the circle, [...]

What is dharma? Hinduism – India

By |2019-05-07T07:12:30-07:00July 21st, 2017|India, Religion|

What is dharma? Arjuna fights Shiva (in a story from the Mahabharata) because that is his dharma Dharma is an Indian idea Dharma is a Sanskrit word originally meaning order or solidity or normality. It comes from an earlier Indo-European (Yamnaya) word meaning firm, solid, like wood or a tree. Who were the Yamnaya? What is [...]