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Using an Infinite number of such shapes to find the area or volume exactly is the purpose of Integral Calculus , which has made this process obsolete. Archimedes first used the method of exhaustion as a way to calculate π by filling the circle with a polygon of a greater and greater number of sides. The area of this polygon divided by the radius squared would be very close to the actual value of π. |
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