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[–] Acamon@lemmy.world 7 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I'm glad I looked that up. Pi is wrong. I'm a convert.

[–] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

idk man, i acknowledge 2π comes up a lot, but sometimes you just have π and I'd much rather write 2π than τ/2

[–] Acamon@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

They're both useful, a cricle's circumference as τr is lovely but πr2 is certainly more elegant for area. The real pity is that they didn't use the symbols the other way round - if τ = 3.1... and π =6.2... you have a natural π =τ+τ which makes sense (visually, conventionally mathematically it's nonsense!)