He makes a good argument but, based on these examples, it's easy to see why tau was overlooked in the time before calculus.
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Roger Hui <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- Devon McCormick, CFA ^me^ at acm. org is my preferred e-mail ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
