The link below shows a step by step process of how he achieved his results.
The area of any circle is equal to the area of a right triangle in which one of the legs is equal to the radius and the other to the circumference (Fauvel and Gray eds, 1987, pp. 148-150).
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Archimedes' Method of Exhaustion
It is important to note that Archimedes' method of finding the area of a circle is not very different from the third century Chinese method. One difference is that the formula is stated as:
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