(math question) How do I get the "r" of a circle by using "angle" and number of "segments"

idk which category to put this in soooooo ye

I want to get the radius of a circle by using its number of segments and angle of the segments
thats all

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That’s not enough information to calculate a radius. I’m assuming you mean “regular polygon” instead of “circle”.

Anyways, a big octagon and a tiny octagon have the same number of sides and the same angle, but different radii. You can’t compute it.

What application is this for? Maybe there’s a better option.

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why? why cant you compute it? well if not a circle then what about a polygon?

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So you mean something like this image:

But you only have the arch and the arch’s angle? I’m no mathematician, but I’m pretty sure that if you want the full circumference, you’d need more information on the circle.

What exactly are you trying to achieve with that, maybe we can look for a different solution.

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Do you mean radius? Please elaborate

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Like I said, you have this information:

  • The number of sides
  • The angle of the sides

Those are redundant. The angle of each side is just 360° / #sides.

Just “the number of sides of a polygon” is not enough to determine how big it is.

Look, two polygons with the same number of sides and the same angles, but different radii:

+---+
|   |
+---+

+-------+
|       |
|       |
|       |
+-------+
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this post was solved sorry for the inconvienience

Curious how to solve it. Kmmmmm

so I wanted to make a circle and i just used cframe to make it its really easy actually go ahead! try it out for yourself! also neat part you can even find the radius using it!

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