Area of a circle as follows. Draw a perpendicular from the center to the midpoint of a side of the polygon; its length, "h", is less than the circle radius. Also, let each side of the polygon have length "s"; then the sum of the sides, "ns", is less than the circle circumference. The polygon area consists of "n" equal triangles with height "h" and base "s", thus equals ⁄"nhs". But since "h" < "r" and "ns" < "c", the polygon area must be less than the triangle area, ⁄"cr", a contradiction. Therefore, our supposition that "C" might be greater than "T" must be
Measurement of a Circle be produced by an iterative geometrical construction suggested by Archimedes' Stomachion in the setting of the regular dodecagon. In this case, the task is to give rational approximations to the tangent of π/12. Measurement of a Circle Measurement of a Circle or Dimension of the Circle (Greek: , "Kuklou metrēsis") is a treatise that consists of three propositions by Archimedes, ca. 250 BCE. The treatise is only a fraction of what was a longer work. Proposition one states: The area of any circle is equal to a right-angled triangle in which one of the sides about the right angle is