Happy Tau Day!
http://tauday.com/
In what at first seemed to be a joke, or a simple amusement to occupy several seconds of my time, turned into me reading this page from beginning to end, utterly fascinated by the time I was finished.
In plain language: pi is wrong!
For anyone who has ever done trig, or engineering, or physics, this article explains with crystal clarity why we should use "tau" instead of "pi" to define any relations that involve the circle ratio... and how much clearer everything becomes when you do.
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
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I like it, it makes so much sense. If you ever manage to convince the US population to use tau instead of pi, there is another similar concept that you can try to push at the same time!
ReplyDeleteIt's called the "metric system" :)
LOL. Hey now, let's not get too crazy..
ReplyDeleteHonestly I'd love to see the US go metric. But like pi, the British system is clunky and makes no sense.. and if there's one thing Americans are good at, it's doing stupid things that make no sense :)