See http://tauday.com/#sec:circular_area Section 3, Circular area: the coup de grâce.
----- Original Message ----- From: Devon McCormick <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 9:19 Subject: Re: [Jchat] Has anyone come across Tau before? To: Chat forum <[email protected]> > 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
