• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    considering that pi is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to it’s diameter, where tau is the ratio of a circles circumference to it’s radius, anywhere you see 2pi in nature, you’re seeing tau, too.

    Don’t mind me. I just like making bad math puns; so 2pi will always be better than 1. (especially around my family… quite vociferous about which pie is best. Apple, btw.)

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      8 months ago

      2pi is always what you see. I don’t think there’s a situation it’s ever alone. It may look like it is sometimes, but that because it was divided by two already wherever the formula was derived from. Tau is the actual useful number, and 1/2 Tau somehow became mainstream

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        8 months ago

        Yep. I linked the Tau manifesto in my original comment for any one curious. It’s a math and engineering nerd rant, though.

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      8 months ago

      Don’t make this about pi! We both know tau is fake and as long as we don’t speak about pi, all is fine

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        8 months ago

        So… is that like, an antiprime?

        (Yes, my math teacher hated me. To be fair, he cared more about coaching football. He was an awful math teacher.)