I read something about it a while ago but remain unconvinced. The nice, simple formula for the area of a circle would change from "pi r squared" to "tau (r squared)/2" (or "4 tau d squared"?)
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 8:06 AM, Simon Barker <[email protected]>wrote: > I read with interest the following link today: > > > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13906169 > > > > It describes a constant, Tau, which has twice the value of Pi and it is > claimed its usage makes more sense than Pi in a lot of situations and > simplifies calculations. > > > > Perhaps the GPL version of J could include it as an experimental function: > Tau Times. > > > > Regards, > > > > Simon Barker > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Devon McCormick, CFA ^me^ at acm. org is my preferred e-mail ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
