The Tau Manifesto

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Post by acjohnson55 » Sat, Mar 14, 2015, 2:00 PM UTC

The Tau Manifesto
tauday.com

Re: The Tau Manifesto

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Post by lkbm » Sat, Mar 14, 2015, 2:59 PM UTC

Numberphile also has a really fun debate on Pi v. Tau: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPv1UV0rD8U

Re: The Tau Manifesto

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Post by hugs » Sat, Mar 14, 2015, 3:02 PM UTC

I didn't really understand why tau was "better" than pi until I understood the relationship to radians. Figure 8 [1] in the Tau Manifesto was the eye-opener for me. With tau, instead of pi, I now have a more intuitive sense of how to think in radians when doing trigonometry.

[1]: http://www.tauday.com/tau-manifesto#fig-tau_angles

Re: The Tau Manifesto

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Post by jackmaney » Sat, Mar 14, 2015, 3:10 PM UTC

http://www.thepimanifesto.com/

Re: The Tau Manifesto

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Post by giech » Sat, Mar 14, 2015, 3:29 PM UTC

I think this whole argument is silly. I really do not think one is fundamentally better than the other. Factor of 2 constants will exist no matter which one you choose. Might as well go with pau http://xkcd.com/1292/

Re: The Tau Manifesto

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Post by bau5 » Sat, Mar 14, 2015, 3:34 PM UTC

Do not want.

Re: The Tau Manifesto

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Post by thomasahle » Sat, Mar 14, 2015, 3:38 PM UTC

lkbm wrote: post #2

Numberphile also has a really fun debate on Pi v. Tau: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPv1UV0rD8U

But changing our number system to base 12 would destroy pi day!

Re: The Tau Manifesto

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Post by thomasahle » Sat, Mar 14, 2015, 3:50 PM UTC

jackmaney wrote: post #4

http://www.thepimanifesto.com/

I like Terence's suggestion of using 2pii as the fundamental constant. Sqrt(pi) could also be useful given how often it appears.

Re: The Tau Manifesto

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Post by amalcon » Sat, Mar 14, 2015, 3:55 PM UTC

This is probably the most pointless math argument. Apparently, some people consider it too cumbersome or confusing to write two glyphs instead of one, and would prefer to replace the whole thing with a single glyph. The chosen glyph happens to be one of the worst possible options, because it conflicts with torque (an angular force, which frequently appears in the same calculations as pi). This despite there being dozens of completely unused glyphs in the non-English non-Greek alphabets (Hebrew, Russian, etc).

It seems almost like a parody.

Re: The Tau Manifesto

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Mar 14, 2015, 3:59 PM UTC

amalcon wrote: post #9

This is probably the most pointless math argument. Apparently, some people consider it too cumbersome or confusing to write two glyphs instead of one, and would prefer to replace the whole thing with a single glyph. The chosen glyph happens to be one of the worst possible options, because it conflicts with torque (an angular force, which frequently appears in the same calculations as pi). This despite there being doz…

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