> On Wednesday 30 May 2007 1:54 pm, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>> Using "forward by, turn by" you can draw a circle of known
>> circumference, similar to how kids can measure the circumference of a
>> large circle in the sand by counting footsteps. Measuring the
>> diameter is easy - take the ratio and you're done.
>> So "turn by 120" three times makes your "three stick" version. You
>> can go up to 360 sticks by using 1 degree turns ...
>
> I ruled this out because the 'turn' method uses Pi. To discover Pi,  
> we cannot
> use Pi. That would be a circular argument.