Happy Pi Day! But while you’re getting your 3/14 on, it’s worth noting that pi is worthless! A sham. A fraud. Don’t believe me? Check out why we’d all be worlds better off if we threw out our pi and embraced the power of tau. [The Daily What]
Happy Pi Day! But while you’re getting your 3/14 on, it’s worth noting that pi is worthless! A sham. A fraud. Don’t believe me? Check out why we’d all be worlds better off if we threw out our pi and embraced the power of tau. [The Daily What]
The Saint
Tuesday, March 15, 2011 at 8:58 AMPretty interesting point, but for the minor inconvience of multipling by 2 it no bigggy.
I suspect we use radius rather then diameter because the formula for deriving pi uses radius.
Sainty.
Sicarius123
Tuesday, March 15, 2011 at 11:09 AM14/3 was yesterday in the rest of the world who can correctly say the date.
John Roberts
Tuesday, March 15, 2011 at 7:14 PMIt is really hilarious how vehemently they argue about it. It’s really quite silly, I mean, they’re just simply suggesting that 2π should simply be referred to as τ, aren’t they? all this talk of ‘faith in pi’ and ‘pi followers’, who should be rejected out of hand, is rather fanatical…
Sky Bolt
Wednesday, March 16, 2011 at 1:40 AMI love this video. Vi Hart is amazing. Check out her other maths related videos, like the one about infinite elephants. Or the 12 days of Christmath. That one’s awesome.