• FuglyDuck
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    9 months ago

    Tau Day was first. specifically created as a day to promote tau over pi being taught in schools. (because 2 pi is always better than one.) (sorry. sorry. Couldn’t resist.)

    • @[email protected]
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      149 months ago

      Tau isn’t real, it’s a social construct. Think about it: did you ever see tau in nature? “I have eaten tau apples” said no one ever. Face it: it’s made up by humans and isn’t real in any meaningful way

      • FuglyDuck
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        109 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.)

        • @[email protected]
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          49 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

          • FuglyDuck
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            69 months ago

            I don’t see why not. Pi is delicious, so it’s logical that 2pi is more so,

        • Cethin
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          39 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

          • FuglyDuck
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            9 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.

        • @[email protected]
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          19 months ago

          you can create any number by multiplying pi by another number. Checkmate rest of the numbers

          • FuglyDuck
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            19 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.)

      • @[email protected]
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        9 months ago

        Idk, the HL tau cannon is pretty dope

        Also, everything we say is made up by humans.

      • @[email protected]
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        69 months ago

        People working together for the greater good? Bad.

        Space Christo-fascism? Good.

        WH40K memes are weak.

        • @[email protected]
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          19 months ago

          It’s definitely fascist, absolutely nothing to do with christianity.

          Which, to be fair, doesn’t really differentiate it from christo-fascism does it

    • Ethanol
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      49 months ago

      if you want to know the percentage of something (e.g.: 6% of 50) you can swap the numbers around: 6% of 50 = 50% of 6 = 3
      that is because it’s simply a multiplication, 6% of 50 = 6/100 * 50 = 6 * 50/100 = 50% of 6

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky
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    59 months ago

    If it’s a conspiracy, it’s one I can get down with. My college was celebrating today by having free mini one person pies available for students and staff. They were just cheap store ones, but that helped make my lunch easier to decide on.

  • Destide
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    49 months ago

    The rest of the world but 14.3 isn’t pi

  • @[email protected]
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    39 months ago

    The circumference of a circle divided by the diameter is exactly three.

    Big Math just made up all this bullshit about there being an infinite number of digits after the three to sell more expensive calculators.