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Diameter

The diameter of a circle is the distance from a point on the circle to a point pi radians away, and is the maximum distance from one point on a circle to another. The diameter of a sphere is the maximum distance between two antipodal points on the surface of the sphere.

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If r is the radius of a circle or sphere, then d=2r. The ratio of the circumference C of a circle or great circle of a sphere to the diameter d is pi,

pi=C/d.

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Brocard Diameter, Circumference, Circumradius, Circumsphere, Generalized Diameter, Graph Diameter, Pi, Polygon Diameter, Radius, Sphere, Transfinite Diameter Explore this topic in the MathWorld classroom

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Diameter." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Diameter.html

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