jlujan69
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Post by jlujan69 on Jul 1, 2011 16:06:57 GMT -5
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Post by Undecided on Jul 1, 2011 23:59:13 GMT -5
It'd be nice to know what your opinion on this issue is if you feel it is important enough to be brought to the forum's attention.
Twice pi is a more fundamental mathematical constant than pi because the former represents a full cycle whereas the latter represents a half cycle. It would probably have made teaching trigonometry easier if things were first defined that way. Still, nothing is going to change in the near future. Nobody is going to use tau to represent that number, because it conflicts with too many established uses for tau (as an alternative, I've seen twice pi written by advocates of a change as three vertical strokes and one horizontal stroke in the style of pi). In any case, anybody with enough knowledge to recognize that twice pi is more fundamental likely recognizes that this debate is a complete waste of time.
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Post by malicious_bloke on Jul 2, 2011 6:28:19 GMT -5
See this is what happens when you pay attention to Maths nerds. The people who come up with pointless arguments like this are the same people who go to a pub and order coffee while wearing a cardigan their gran knitted for them.
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Post by matante on Jul 2, 2011 11:48:39 GMT -5
The people who come up with pointless arguments like this are the same people who go to a pub and order coffee while wearing a cardigan their gran knitted for them. Is that a bad thing? |
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Post by MaybeNever on Jul 2, 2011 14:12:19 GMT -5
Are you wearing a Cardigan your grandmother knitted for you, Matante?
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Post by Meshakhad on Jul 2, 2011 14:54:32 GMT -5
Pi is used in other formulas, such as the one for the area of a circle. Therefore I stand with Pi.
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Post by Vene on Jul 2, 2011 15:16:49 GMT -5
Pi is used in other formulas, such as the one for the area of a circle. Therefore I stand with Pi. The link says that 2pi is more common in formulas than simply pi, by your logic we should switch to tau and when the few formulas use pi just use tau/2. |
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Post by Oriet on Jul 2, 2011 15:26:42 GMT -5
At first I thought this was going to be a weird thread about Warhammer 40K and a bizarre combination of math and pastries.
As it is I can quite understand, and even somewhat agree with, the change from Pi to Tau. The biggest hurdle with that is having public schools make the transition, not just by having to buy a ton of new math books but having students make the transition and dealing with different grades having different math standards.
Oh, and in the future please post something about the article (but not the whole article, as that ends up being copy-right infringement) and your opinion on or questions about the subject in the opening post.
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Post by Yla on Jul 6, 2011 5:46:19 GMT -5
The biggest hurdle with that is having public schools make the transition, not just by having to buy a ton of new math books but having students make the transition and dealing with different grades having different math standards. This. Using 2*pi is a great idea (maybe not tau, as that is already used all over the place, although that would be just another convention that can be changed), it's just that the transition is a class A bitch. I'm for it, for the record (being scared of change mustn't keep you from changing), but this is going to be hell. It'll probably only happen when we have contact with aliens and the scientific community switches to a combination of the best of both mathematic notation systems. |
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Post by DarkfireTaimatsu on Jul 6, 2011 6:40:55 GMT -5
Fuck.
That.
Noise.
Everyone thinks Rule 34 ruins their childhoods. You know what ruins childhoods? REALITY. They already stabbed Pluto in the back and kicked the poor thing to the curb, without even stopping to think about the consequences of rendering My Very Educated Mother Just Sent Us Nine an incomplete mneumonic device and reducing Sailor Pluto to who-knows-what. And now this. Well, let me give you the consequences now, all you people who are there:
When will we celebrate Pi Day? Did you ever think of that?? Hmm??
Not to mention, pi/pie is, like, roughly half of the math puns there are. These are extremely serious consequences.
Pi and Pluto 4 lyfe. Bitches.
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Post by Yla on Jul 6, 2011 8:27:30 GMT -5
When will we celebrate Pi Day? Did you ever think of that?? Hmm?? Not to mention, pi/pie is, like, roughly half of the math puns there are. These are extremely serious consequences. Tau Day is on June 28, of course. That's no problem, don't let that issue tauering over everything else. (sorry, was in a hurry) |
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Post by Old Viking on Jul 6, 2011 15:06:17 GMT -5
Try eating tau with ice cream.
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