• tjsauce@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    It would be 2PiZA, since ZZ is Z squared

    EDIT: my bad, I was thinking of circumference

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        10 months ago

        How does that work out? It doesn’t take into account how large the crust is in relation to the rest of the pizza.

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          10 months ago

          Sorry, the surface area of the “vertical” side of the crust, not including the top or bottom surfaces.

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              10 months ago

              No, you need to include the height of the cylinder (a). Imagine a deep dish pizza (big a) versus a thin crust (small a) - the sides of the deep dish pizza have more area. Your formula returns the circumference of the pizza.

              If you’re interested in dimensional analysis (and why wouldn’t you be?) the formula you proposed doesn’t have enough length units. It would return a value of length (like inches, or cm) not area (like square inches or square cm).