• Question: how any sides does a circle have

    Asked by missjmrt to Andrew, Ash, Gem, Paige, SJ on 25 Jun 2012.
    • Photo: Paige Brown

      Paige Brown answered on 25 Jun 2012:

      How many sides? Well a circle technically could be broken down into an infinite number of sides!!! MANY MANY Straight angles could be used to approximate the circle, but a circle is a circle precisely because it doesn’t have sides!

    • Photo: SarahJayne Boulton

      SarahJayne Boulton answered on 25 Jun 2012:

      Inside and outside? 🙂

      …though Paige is totally right about the infinite sides theory. 🙂

    • Photo: Gemma Staite

      Gemma Staite answered on 25 Jun 2012:

      I agree with Paige, but personally I think the inside and outside is easier

    • Photo: Ashley Cadby

      Ashley Cadby answered on 1 Jul 2012:

      A circle has an infinite number of sides. Draw a square, then a pentagon, then a hexagon, then a heptagon and keep going and you will see the more sides you ad the close you get to a circle. What’s crazy is that we have just told you that a circle has an infinite numbe of sides, but think about what that means. It you tried to count them you could never do it, or the other way round when you draw a circle you create infinity. Makes my head hurt.

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