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Happy Tau Day

Posted by samzenpus on from the look-how-round-it-is dept.

Forget about Pi Day, today we celebrate something twice as good: Tau Day. For far too long, Pi has been the bride and Tau has been the bridesmaid. As Michael Hartl points out in The Tau Manifesto, "Pi is a confusing and unnatural choice for the circle constant." He is giving a talk at the California Institute of Technology based on the Manifesto, with pie served at the end. "Twice as many as you might expect," he says.

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  1. Fuck that, I've created Upsilon! by elrous0 · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's 4*Pi, which makes it TWICE as kick-ass as Tau!

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  2. Always show your work by Maximum+Prophet · · Score: 2, Funny

    Back in 7th grade the teacher wanted us to show our work. Most of the time I could figure out the stuff in my head, so I didn't want to do that. In order to freak out the teacher, I memorized the multiplication table of (single digit) * 3.14

    After that I could write stuff like 67*pi = 188.40 + 21.98 = 210.38 (vertically)

    The teacher never commented on showing my work after that...

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  3. Re:Yin and yang by mr_mischief · · Score: 3, Funny

    So the tau that can be named is not the true tau?