]]>Maybe we could come up with an argument for pi/2. It is a "right" angle, so it must be right!
Shanks it seems was doing all that calculating for same reason we do it today. He wanted to know if there is some pattern in the digits of pi.
]]>Actually, the idea is several years old, at least 3 or 4 if not long. And it is not a bad idea, because some formulas to become just a little bit prettier, but in my opinion, it is not very useful...
]]>http://tauday.com/tau-manifesto
To be brief, the "tauists", as they call themselves, argue that the constant pi should be replaced with tau=2*pi, which is much more natural.
I have to say that, to me, the manifesto was really convincing; as i see it, the use of tau instead of pi brings clarity and coherence with other formulas (for example area of a circular sector).
What do you think about it?
thats so annoying because pi was made,like THOUSANDS OF YEARRRRRRRRSSSS AGO!This idea is 0 YEARS OLD!:mad:
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