Saturday, October 5, 2013

Pi is dead! Long live Tau! Or maybe Eta...

OK, pi will never really die.  It's too ingrained in society.  But, as a practicing engineer, pi never really felt quite right.  It was annoying, but I didn't know how to explain it well other than "we work with radius, not diameter".  Then last night I found the Tau Manifesto, which articulated the issue quite nicely.

Don't worry folks.  There's always room for pi!  And who couldn't like Tau Day?  I mean, that's 2 pi!  June 28 at 3:19.  Dig in.

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