Talk:Perimeter

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This article contains a translation of Pétimètre from fr.wikipedia.

This version's much better than yesterday's.

Lunakeet 17:46, 29 April 2008 (UTC)Reply

So I added an image showing how to calculate the perimeter of a rectangle. Do we need more diagrams? --Thinboy00 @196, i.e. 03:42, 26 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

It would be nice to have an image of a general polygon and/or a general path. Unfortunately I have some problems with LaTeX in Inkscape so I won't be adding these soon. I think we're fine for now, though. Feel free to remove the request tag. --Swift (talk) 14:39, 26 February 2009 (UTC) I added some simple shapes, and removed the tag. xnn (talk) 20:34, 9 June 2010 (UTC)Reply

analogous to separate surface and surface area; there is not much information here about the perimeter shape or outline. fgnievinski (talk) 18:25, 1 October 2015 (UTC)Reply

This definition removed ${\displaystyle \int _{0}^{L}\mathrm {d} s}$, where ${\displaystyle L}$ is the length of the path and ${\displaystyle ds}$ is an infinitesimal line element. Bcan produce equations with no algebraic solution.

For example, consider the exponential curve ${\displaystyle (x=s,y=e^{s})}$. The removed definition above gives:

${\displaystyle L=\int _{0}^{L}\mathrm {d} s=\int \limits _{0}^{L}{\sqrt {1+e^{2}e^{s}}}\mathrm {d} s}$

This not an algebraic equation

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caccioppoli_set, can we conclude that the perimeter of a cuboid is the sum of its edges?

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User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 02:41, 13 February 2022 (UTC)Reply

The term circumference is only used for circles, not ellipses. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.36.193.220 (talk) 01:49, 22 January 2023 (UTC)Reply

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