Approximation of the circle area
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===The underlying JavaScript code>
<jsxgraph width="700" height="500">
board = JXG.JSXGraph.initBoard('jxgbox', {boundingbox:[-2,2,8,-2], keepaspectratio:true, axis:true});
var N = board.createElement('slider', [[0,1.5],[3,1.5],[1,3,40]], {name:'n',snapWidth:1});
board.createElement('circle',[[0,0],1],{strokeWidth:1});
var c = board.createElement('curve', [[0],[0]],{trace:true, strokecolor:'red', strokeWidth:2});
c.updateDataArray = function() {
var r = 1, n = N.Value(), x = [0], y = [0],
h = r*Math.cos(2*Math.PI/(2*n)),
s = r*Math.sin(2*Math.PI/(2*n)),
i, j, px = 0, py = 0, sgn = 1,
d = 16, dt = 2*Math.PI/(2*n)/(d), pt;
for (i=0;i<n;i++) {
for (j=-d;j<=d;j++) {
pt = dt*j;
x.push(px+r*Math.sin(pt));
py = sgn*r*Math.cos(pt)-(sgn-1)*h*0.5;
y.push(py);
}
px += s;
sgn *= (-1);
}
x.push((n-1)*s);
y.push(h+(sgn-1)*h*0.5);
this.dataX = x;
this.dataY = y;
}
board.update();
</jsxgraph>