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Circles
By:Darshan Chaudhary,Roll No-11,Class IX F
 
 
History of the Circle
The circle has been known sincebefore the beginning of recordedhistory. Some highlightsin the history of the circle are:
1700 BC
– The Rhind papyrus gives amethod to find the area of a circular field.The result corresponds to 256/81 as anapproximate value of π.
300 BC
– Book 3 of Euclid's Elementsdeals with the properties of circles.
1880
– Lindemann proves that π istranscendental, effectively settling themillennia-old problem of squaring the circle
Circles drawn in the past
 
 
Introduction-What is a Circle and itsRadius?
Circle:
A circle is a simple shape of Euclidean Geometry consistingof those points in a plane whichare the same distance from agiven point called the
center 
.
Radius:
The common distance of thepoints of a circle from its center is called its
radius
.
Tycho crater, one of manyexamples of circles thatarise in nature
 
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