Happy Tau Day
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Happy Tau Day
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Re: Happy Tau Day
#2The choice between Pi vs. Tau is completely arbitrary and should be based on minimizing the friction of use. Everyone knows Pi, few knows about Tau. I see no point in spending any more energy than that on this kind of nonsense decisions.
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#3Wow, they've really redesigned that site's look. Not sure I like it... the figures especially look bad.
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#4The choice between Pi vs. Tau is completely arbitrary and should be based on minimizing the friction of use. Everyone knows Pi, few knows about Tau. I see no point in spending any more energy than that on this kind of nonsense decisions.
To use your own argument, 2*pi is far, far more common to encounter in physics/maths ie. real world examples, therefore minimizing friction would be using Tau ;)
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#5The choice between Pi vs. Tau is completely arbitrary and should be based on minimizing the friction of use. Everyone knows Pi, few knows about Tau. I see no point in spending any more energy than that on this kind of nonsense decisions.
Like how we should stick with GMT?
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#7The choice between Pi vs. Tau is completely arbitrary and should be based on minimizing the friction of use. Everyone knows Pi, few knows about Tau. I see no point in spending any more energy than that on this kind of nonsense decisions.
While I appreciate the actual methematical point of the site (and assume there is a small sense of deadpan humor intended), discussions as to which day should be "celebrated" are pointless since the day's importance to the general public has nothing to do with the value of pi or tau, but instead the fact that pi is a homonym of pie and march 14th happens to be the same numerically as the first few digits.
As far as I know, that's the extent of the popularity - you can make pies on Pi Day. Again, I'm assuming the Tau day thing is a bit of deadpan, but otherwise it seems to me to be that simple.
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#8The choice between Pi vs. Tau is completely arbitrary and should be based on minimizing the friction of use. Everyone knows Pi, few knows about Tau. I see no point in spending any more energy than that on this kind of nonsense decisions.
"Because that's the way we've always done is" is never a valid argument.
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#9The choice between Pi vs. Tau is completely arbitrary and should be based on minimizing the friction of use. Everyone knows Pi, few knows about Tau. I see no point in spending any more energy than that on this kind of nonsense decisions.
"Because that's the way we've always done is" is never a valid argument.
I"m not entirely sure that's the argument being made.
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#10I just wish instead of celebrating these days on arbitrary month/day combinations, that we'd instead use some physics or math based use of them. Pi day should be when we've gone half way around the Sun and Tau, New Years Day.