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6616858 No.6616858 [Reply] [Original]

Has there been any effort to fix this?
>implying that Pi is wrong and should be fixed

>> No.6616879

No? This seems so obvious.

>> No.6616913

>>6616858
No one gives a fuck. It's not consequential enough to be worth changing established norms.

>> No.6616942 [DELETED] 

i'm 16 what should i major in

>> No.6616949

>>6616942
Women's studies

>> No.6616950

>>6616942
poop

>> No.6616952

>>6616942
chicken turkey

>> No.6616981

>>6616942
Does this not warrant a ban anymore?

>> No.6616983

>>6616981
I'm pretty sure it was a joke post, but looks like he's banned

>> No.6617005

>>6616942
YOU SICK FUCK

>> No.6617042

>>6617005
what was it?

>> No.6617063

>>6617042
>i'm 16 what should i major in
Also, on the subject of tau, I find it hard to believe that anyone actually wanting to change the norm from pi is heavily into math or even has a mathematical mind. Pi is ingrained in our minds now and it was easy to learn with in the first place.

>> No.6617075

why tau? can anyone explain?

>> No.6617080

Theoretical physicist here.

Just use units where <span class="math">2 \pi =1[/spoiler]

>> No.6617113

can someone explain to me why replacing 2pi with tau is necessary at all? How can we possibly benefit from suddenly replacing a world-wide notation that's been used for millennia with another one that is almost the same thing at all?

or is the whole thing an old, elaborate ruse

>> No.6617121

>>6617075
So that the period of sine/cosine becomes 1*tau instead of 2*pi, meaning that while 1/16 of a period would be pi/8, it could be represented as tau/16, which is arguably easier to manage.
As far as I'm aware, it's all semantics.

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6617125

>>6617113
>used for millennia

>> No.6617170

>>6617113
>>6617075
It's for the purity of mathematics. Why use 2*(some constant I just made up) when you could use the (currently) natural constant 'e'?

>> No.6617176

>>6617170
(cont)
Seriously, what if you realized that 'e', (let's say) was being used in equations as e/2 everywhere.... and then you realized that we had mis-evaluated e to be twice it's value.
The natural base is my favorite number... wouldn't it be better to change the equations in favor of simplicity and clarity?

>> No.6617197

>>6617170
>>6617176
e and pi have different uses. If e was "miscalculated" to d where d = 2e or whatever mathematics would be a lot less elegant simply due to the fact that e is used for exponentiation and adding parentheses to (d/2)^x would get annoying quick. However, hardly do you ever have to raise 2pi or tau to something. What tau is used for, you just need to slap a constant down next to pi which is hardly annoying and there isn't much usage of parentheses. Granted it makes math "less elegant" but it ain't that bad. Learning trig with pi is not difficult by any stretch of the means because you just have to think in half circles which is not a problem.

>> No.6617204

>>6617113
You should meet chinese folk medicine. It has been used for a gazillion+ years