Why the Area of a Circle is Equal to πr^2?

I have been told that the area of a circle is equal to \pi r^2 since I was in primary school by my math teacher, and from then on I use this formula to solve many problems about circles. And these days, when I used this formula again, I suddenly realized that I didn’t know why the formula will look like this in fact.

So I began to think how to get this formula. In my opinion, it’s related to the limit, so I proved the formula by calculus later.

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