I am baked for a warm autumn feast, but mathematicians prefer me without an 'e' when calculating circles. What am I?
A pie
The answer relies on a homophone wordplay between the baked dessert 'pie' and the mathematical constant 'pi.' Removing the letter 'e' from the dessert leaves you with 'pi,' which is used to calculate the circumference and area of circles.
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