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Pi at School: Arindama Sing Dept. of Mathematics IIT Madras, Chennai 600 036, India November 24, 2011

This document defines pi (π) using the properties of the real number system and greatest lower and least upper bounds. It then proves the usual formulas for the circumference and area of a circle using this definition. While the formulas are well-known, the document notes that the proofs are not typically found in textbooks and aims to fill this gap.

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Pi at School: Arindama Sing Dept. of Mathematics IIT Madras, Chennai 600 036, India November 24, 2011

This document defines pi (π) using the properties of the real number system and greatest lower and least upper bounds. It then proves the usual formulas for the circumference and area of a circle using this definition. While the formulas are well-known, the document notes that the proofs are not typically found in textbooks and aims to fill this gap.

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Pi at School

Arindama Sing
Dept. of Mathematics
IIT Madras, Chennai 600 036, India
November 24, 2011
Abstract
In this paper, an atempt has been made to dene by using the greatest lower
bound and the least upper bound properties of the real number system. Using
this deniton, the usual formulas for the perimeter and area of a circle are
proved. Through the formulas are well-known, their proofs are not found n text
books. This paper tries to ll that gap.
Chapter 1
Preenu
1.1 Introduction
For the rst time when a child sees a circular region, he thinks it should have
an area since it is a clossed gure with a very regular smooth boundary. He is
then told that a circle does have an area and a perimeter whose formulas are re-
spectively, r
2
and 2r. The number is not rational but can be approximated
well, for all practical processes, to 22/7.
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