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To make an enclosing cylinder that bounds the cone in my example, we can use a 1x1 square with centroid (0.5, 0.5). The cylinder has volume π. And that works out from Pappus' theorem too:

1 (the square area) * 0.5*2π (the distance traveled by the centroid)



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