Calculating the area of a circle ================================ Convert Circle -> Square. Imagine an infinite number of line segments of length r (radius). These can easily be made into either a circle or rectangle, depending on how you arrand them. In a rectangle, the height of the "stacked" lines is equal to their length if they were arranged in a circle. Radius -------------- c | | i | | r | | c | | u | | m | | f | | r | | e | | n | | c | | e |------------| However, circumfrence length is not present on center point, so: Radius -------------- c | / i | / r | / c | / u | / m | / f | / r | / e | / n | / c | / e |/ The area of this triangle is (1/2)(Radius * Circumfrence). Circumfrence = 2 * pi * radius, so the area is (1/2)(Radius * (2 * pi * Radius)) (1/2)(2 * Radius^2 * pi) (2/2 * Radius^2 * pi) {pi * Radius^2} And thus is derived the formula for the area of a circle.