Consider a regular -gon with radius . Let be the side length of the -gon. So, since the central angle is (see diagram below), use the Law of Cosines to find that , so . Thus, . So, the total perimeter of the -gon is . Now, if we take \lim _{n \rightarrow \infty}2 \pi nn\lim _{n \rightarrow \infty} n r \sqrt{2} \sqrt{1-\cos \frac{2 \pi}{n}}=2 \pi r\lim _{n \rightarrow \infty} \boldsymbol{n} \boldsymbol{r} \sqrt{\mathbf{1 - \operatorname { c o s } \frac { 2 \pi } { n }}}=\pi r \sqrt{2}$.
Solution
The limit of the perimeter as is .
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