A wonky campaign to relegate pi to the dustbin of history and replace it with a more useful fundamental constant: tau.
Mathematicians... you muthuh fuckas is crazy.
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You said "math," and I became instantly confused. Numbers make my eyes cross, so I'll take your word for it that this is a bad thing. ;)
ReplyDeleteAmazing. I've never heard of using tau to replace 2pi, but it makes a lot of sense. Granted there are a lot of formula that have just a single pi, but my intuition is that this would save time.
ReplyDeleteGiven all the fractions of a second I've written 2pi, tau might have added up to save me hours of my life....I like
My head hurts now, Tony...
ReplyDelete*LMAO* Ugly math ... f-ugly math has been more the story of my math studies. In a strange way, I enjoyed this clip. I was with him until he used the dirty word "calculus." o_O
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