Pi is Wrong?

[benguino]

Re: Pi is Wrong?

Why not use both tau and pi?

@Komissar
A lot more bakers lightly brush an egg mixture over the crust instead of butter.

That sounds good. Use the one that nicely matches the circumstances.

[SocoNhydro420]

Re: Pi is Wrong?

Its just about how things got started in the beginning, and gets passed down through the generations. Take religeon for example. Sometimes i wonder how can people believe that nonesense... But you have to remember as a kid your mind is vulnerable to ignorance and such things are inevitable. But thats another matter entirely.

As for the substitution, thats just what it is, a substitution. Nothing new. As a physicist we frequently define new variables and notation to stand for a pagefull of equations just to shorten things up. Einstein was the king of this with his summation notation, as well as Dirac with his state vector notation. Ill agree they make hard things more elegant and less cumbersome, but as for things that have been that way for thousands of years it will never, ever, change. (sad face)