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Unread 06-20-2012, 05:46 PM   #1
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Lolitrollu Tau Day Approaches! No Pi(e) for you!
http://tauday.com/

So, apparently Pi is wrong... ?

Warning, we're about to get into really... really... nerdy stuff. Full Math Gear on people! we're going in...

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March 14, or 3/14, is known as “Pi Day” because of its resemblance to the first three digits in the decimal expansion of ? (pi), which is defined as the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter:

?=CD=3.14…

As the “circle constant”, ? is the object of virtually unlimited adulation, so you are probably under the impression that ? is a particularly important number. I am sorry to report that you have been misinformed.

The true circle constant is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its radius, not to its diameter. This number, called ? (tau), is equal to 2?, so ? is 12?—and March 14 is thus Half Tau Day. (Of course, since ?=6.28…, June 28, or 6/28, is Tau Day itself.) Although it is of great historical importance, the mathematical significance of ? is simply that it is one-half ?.

But how can this be? What about trigonometry? What about Euler’s identity? What about ?r2? Can ? really be wrong? All your questions and more are answered here, in an article called The Tau Manifesto.
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So, if in the coming week you hear a lot of geeks talking about Tau... now you know!
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Unread 06-20-2012, 05:51 PM   #2
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Having taken calculus (a number of them) and trigonometry, I think I can say that pi is more right than tau because I have never used tau.

I'm sure someone more mathematically inclined will readily step in and correct me. :P
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Unread 06-20-2012, 07:32 PM   #4
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This number, called ? (tau), is equal to 2?, so ? is 12?
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the mathematical significance of ? is simply that it is one-half ?.
This article seems confused as to what ? is equal to.
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Unread 06-20-2012, 07:35 PM   #5
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I think that's probably a result of whatever text input or font or whatever not being able to handle greek characters. :S Prolly npf when it was copied and pasted, I'd guess.
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Indeed! In the original page the text was all properly converted to the right Formulas and symbols
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I think that's probably a result of whatever text input or font or whatever not being able to handle greek characters. :S Prolly npf when it was copied and pasted, I'd guess.
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I'm not sure how I could have made my lame joke even more obvious without actually typing "this post contains a joke."
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