Claim: Pi is the ratio of the distance of the circumference of a circle to the length across the circle.
Evidence: The number is a mathematical constant , the ratio of a circle 's circumference to its diameter , commonly approximated as 3.14159.
The circumference -LRB- from Latin circumferentia , meaning `` carrying around '' -RRB- of a closed curve or circular object is the linear distance around its edge.
In geometry , a diameter of a circle is any straight line segment that passes through the center of the circle and whose endpoints lie on the circle.