Joe, I just read about Tau-ism, and must contemplate my feelings about it. I have a VERY emotional attachment to pi...after all, it is my (online) hockey jersey number. (I have been called irrational on occasion, especially on the ice.)
The idea of tau intrigues me...no more 2*pi radians, just tau radians. There's an elegance to it that appeals to the mathemagician in me. And yet, the simplest derivation of tau really does stem from pi. There are (countably) infinitely many ways to compute pi (and hence tau), so now I must look at some of those derivations. Does using tau make them simpler, or more complicated? Ah, elegance....the bain of the mathemagician. The only thing I won't give up for elegance is decimal points. (To you engineers: For the love of [insert deity here], at least use an approximation symbol, NOT an equals, when you absolutely MUST round off.) Debbie <--- glorying in HER day on the ice :) On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Dr Josef Karthauser <[email protected]>wrote: > On 14 Mar 2011, at 16:42, Alan J Fletcher wrote: > > > At 07:10 AM 3/14/2011, Terry Blanton wrote: > >> 3.14 > >> Thought we needed a smile. > > > > This afternoon you have a second chance for: > > > > 3/14 1:59:26 > > Myself, I'm waiting for Tau day :) > > http://tauday.com/ > > Joe > >
