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The problem with the circle is, that before measuring it, one has to prove that it has length, called perimeter). This appears difficult to understand by the novice, it is however a problem which results from the fact that we don’t have, up to now, a definition for the length of a curve.
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Pamfilos, P. (2024). Circle measurement. In: Lectures on Euclidean Geometry - Volume 2. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48910-5_1
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