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
The Doll that Came Straight from Fairyland The Doll that Came Straight from Fairyland "The Doll That Came Straight From Fairyland" is a short story for children published in 1898 by the suffragist and children's fairytale writer Evelyn Sharp. The first edition was published by John Lane in London, England, in "All The Way To Fairyland" with seven other short stories. Evelyn Sharp was born in 1869 and was the ninth of eleven children. She had three years of schooling in London where she made her living. Evelyn's first publication was an article about fairy tales which led to "Wymps and other Fairy Tales" (1896) and "All