Area of a circle to eight sides and so on. For a polygon with 2"n" sides, the parallelogram will have a base of length "ns", and a height "h". As the number of sides increases, the length of the parallelogram base approaches half the circle circumference, and its height approaches the circle radius. In the limit, the parallelogram becomes a rectangle with width "r" and height "r". There are various equivalent definitions of the constant π. The conventional definition in pre-calculus geometry is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter: However, because the circumference of a circle is not a
Straight from the Heart (Patrice Rushen album) "Straight from the Heart" a "C+" and said that he prefers side one's "dancy vamp" over the songwriting on side two by Rushen, whom he called a fashionable "ingenue". In a retrospective review, AllMusic's Andy Kellman gave it four out of five stars and called it "an early-'80s jazz-pop-R&B synthesis as durable and pleasing as any other". In 2018, Pitchfork ranked Straight From the Heart #194 on its list of the 200 Greatest Albums of the 1980s. Straight from the Heart (Patrice Rushen album) Straight from the Heart is the seventh studio album by American recording artist Patrice Rushen, released