Why is there no circumference of a square?

Answer 1

Well---in a sense there is. Both a circle and a multilateral (eg triangle or square) have a dimension that is the sum of all sides. As you increase the number of sides in a regular polygon, it will eventually start looking like a circle.

We use the term "perimeter" for the sum of all the sides of a polygon. But we use "circumference" for figures with smoothly-varying outer limits. If nothing else, these have the different name because the math is different

Answer 2

The definition of circumference is: the enclosing boundary of a curved geometric figure. A square isn't curved so therefore technically does not have a circumference. The equivalent for a square is the perimeter which is the outermost boundary of an area or object.The formula is P = 4s. (P = perimeter and s = side length)

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