Let us say you are in an inertial reference frame with a circular planar disk. If you take your meter measuring rods (or perhaps tape measure) you can find the diameter and circumference of the disk. If you divide the circumference by the diameter, you will get exactly π. Now you start rotating the disk. A book I have claims that now the ratio will be different (lets call it π∘ to avoid ambiguity.) This has caused to reevaluate my understanding of special relativity (this is a set up to general relativity, but the problem itself only requires the special theory.) My problem is that, sure, the measuring rods (or tape) would contract on the circumference, but wouldn't the circumference contract a similar amount, therefore giving a measurement of π in every reference frame according to your own measuring rods. Of course, this reasoning goes on to make me question how I understood all of special relativity up this point.
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