In ancient times, tau was used as a symbol for life or resurrection, whereas the eighth letter of the Greek alphabet, theta, was considered the symbol of death. Tau Day — the true holiday — is celebrated on June 28th. Converting them to octal would give at most 18 nonzero significant (octal) digits, and from that point on all additional digits would be zeros (remember that an octal digit is equivalent to three bits). 141.101.97.4 07:07, 18 November 2013 (UTC), This number contains 7777, 000 and 444 twice, though. But here’s the thing: some people claim that π is not the best number to use as your fundamental circle constant. ~~Drifter 108.162.219.214 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~), The bias is worse than that: From the perspective of π, the discussion is about multiples of π, so (3/2)π (that is 3π/2 = 3τ/4) is indeed the compromise between π and 2π. Pi is the 16th letter of the greek alphabet and Tau is the 19th. I am not sure what they do, but I was wondering if there was a benefit to joining or at least putting these on my resume, and if it is worth the initiation fee? This page was last edited on 13 June 2020, at 05:01. …but if we wish to move beyond πι & ταυ Posted by 3 years ago. Both Maxima and the GNU Emacs calculator output as the first 1000 octal digits: This also agrees with the first 220 digits of the previous result (last two digits above are 57 vs 61 here, maybe due to rounding when converting to octal). And while many formulas are nicer with τ, others are just uglier (in my mind!). The Wolfram result deviates from this at the 18th digit already. I think the previous is an indication that Randall did indeed use Wolfram. Others consider proponents of tau to be foolish and remain loyal to pi (see the Pi Manifesto). Also, note that "pau" is the Portuguese word for "stick", as well as, in Brazilian Portuguese, a very common slang for "penis". More details.. Mention the similarity to the Feynman point. Some consider pi to be the wrong convention and are in favor of using tau as the circle constant; see the Tau Manifesto, which was inspired by the article "Pi is wrong!" … but what would be the canonical definition of η as an equation, mentioning neither π nor τ? … & thanks for showing me that the original French creators of the metric system knew what they were about when they defined the grade as 1/100 of a right angle — this, with τ, had long disturbed me. The standard explain, containing the essentials like shown by 108.162.219.43 just before. State that the property given in the title text does not actually hold for 1.5 * PI, but that due to an early rounding error, it might look as if it holds when shown via Wolfram Alpha. --141.101.104.17 16:46, 11 December 2014 (UTC), The number 666 comes from the biblical explanation of alliances that are other than godly: "the number of a man," according to Wikipedia. the best I now can do is, […] mathematician Albert Eagle just about made a career out of trying to replace Pi with Tau, which is merely the ratio between a […], Level 3 East, Hub CentralNorth Terrace CampusTHE UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDESA 5005 AUSTRALIA, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG7vhMMXagQ, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qpVdwizdvI, Happy Pi Day : Good To See You A Round! What is involved is the concept of bases other than base 10, specifically octal, but that is also a secondary school subject, both in mathematics and computer science. The scripture it comes from doesn't mention the devil. Recently, I’ve heard a lot about the number τ, and I find the whole thing a bit odd. Depending on how self-referential we wish to be, explain how it might have been a plausible mistake for Randall to have relied on Wolfram Alpha, but that if it was a case of nerd sniping, then it was highly successful. And since when is advanced trig a college level course? Thanks for that Karl! Cancel. level 1. Finally, the trig functions repeat their shape (if not their orientation) every η so the very constant you use would remind you of this simple fact. \(\tau\) got 40.9% of the votes and \(\pi\) only 36.4%. These societies are well known and reputable, yet do not belong to this group. Pay attention to the arguments as you will be asked to choose a side in our classroom debate over the battle of Pi vs. Tau. In the first 200 digits of the octal expansion, the sequences 666 and 6666 do occur, twice and once, respectively. Included in their reasoning to throw out π and embrace τ is a claim that it’s pedagogically more sound — that it’s confusing for the fundamental constant to only represent half a circle, and that many more formulas are easier to work with and easier to remember with τ rather than π. Autoplay is paused. Should suffice for understanding however, considering the content 108.162.248.18 08:55, 18 November 2013 (UTC), People should be made aware that pau is a slang for dick in Portuguese. Neither side would capitulate, so they went with 48 bytes, which is worse than either for both sides. This is not true: IEEE double precision numbers (binary64) are stored internally in binary. Therefore, these people claim that you should use instead 2π — which they call τ. Vi Heart gives a very impassioned talk on this on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG7vhMMXagQ, and others have launched τ day (28th of June) as an alternative to π day. Sabik (talk) 04:41, 19 November 2013 (UTC), How can 200 be octal and then mean 310 decimal??? I’ll go (ref: http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/g/gasolpa01.html ), to which neither Tau nor Pi can hold a candle.~~Remo ( 199.27.128.183 19:19, 18 November 2013 (UTC) ). The Tau Manifesto is dedicated to one of the most important numbers in mathematics, perhaps the most important: the circle constant relating the circumference of a circle to its linear dimension. Some mathematicians think pi isn't a good number to use because (when you get to Algebra 2 and Trig and beyond) you find yourself using 2 pi in many calculations. Marking the finest engineers at Lawrence Technological University. C=τr, while C=2πr. At its heart, pi refers to a semicircle, whereas tau refers to the circle in its entirety. Also e+2 does not contain the substring '666': When I take Wolfram alpha's octal(pi*1.5) I get the first 303 (base 10) characters as this: 200(base 10) is 310(base 8) so in the fist '200' characters, 666 shows up 4 times (5 if you count 6666 as twice?) I should try harder 625571b7-aa66-4f98-ac5c-92464cfb4ed8 (talk) 14:41, 14 March 2017 (UTC), http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/g/gasolpa01.html, I used Google News BEFORE it was clickbait, https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1292:_Pi_vs._Tau&oldid=193354. well, I’d rather call it “q” which looks rather like a Q, but smaller] Pi really is mysterious. You're signed out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qpVdwizdvI, Hi Karl, I used eta because it seemed like it wasn’t used for much yet, especially not being used for an angle often, and because the capital is H for half, but mostly because it makes a nice pun: “eta pi”. Invited to Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu, are they worthwhile and worth the fee? Archived. what I want to do in this video is revisit a little bit of what we know about PI and really how we measure angles and radians and then think about whether PI is necessarily the best number to be paying attention to so let's think of a little bit about what I just said so pi we know is defined and I'll write defined as an as a triple equal sign I guess you could call it that way pi is defined as the ratio of a circumference of a … Tau is 2 times Pi, or approximately 6.28 — or more accurately, 6.2832… So “Tau day” is 6/28. It does not occur in the first 200 digits, but occurs 18 times in the first 10,000 digits. Most of the people that I talk to need things to be broken down. But of course, I don’t care quite enough about this to make an empassioned speech about it on YouTube, so it’s unlikely anyone will listen. Nealmcb (talk) 23:22, 19 November 2013 (UTC), Kynde (talk) 15:33, 21 November 2013 (UTC), Note that pau is Catalan for peace, which is a good solution for the pi/tau dispute. Present the Wolfram Alpha answer, and show how the property [almost?] I additionally checked the result using base 2 encoding, and converted each three bit binary value into an octal value. Diplomacy in communications standards at work! New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. Many more occurrences can be found here: Note that "pau" is Catalan for peace, which might be a good solution for the pi/tau dispute; but Tahitian for peace is "tau", so (appropriately?) Pi vs Tau debate settled. Hi, I've recently been invited to both of these. . Pi vs. Tau (alt-text) Conveniently approximated as e+2, Pau is commonly known as the Devil's Ratio (because in the octal expansion, '666' appears four times in the first 200 digits while no other run of 3+ digits appears more than once.) & it’s Latin, best. The method I used to get the value I put in the text was; I used the following command to generate my approximation: 4.554574376314416443236234514475050122425471573015650314763354527003043167712611655054674757031331252340351471657646433317273112431020107644727072362457372164022043765215506554422014311615574251563446213636251744101107770257, In 'bc, a(1) is arctangent of 1 (i.e. Just as I wouldn’t define a circle as ‘two semicircles which share a diameter and endpoints but which have opposite direction,’ I don’t think that the primary constant for describing circles should be defined as the ratio of its Circumference to double (or quadruple) its radius. We use circumference/diameter and not circumference/radius because with primitive tools it was so much easier to measure the diameter of a circle than the radius. This leaves little or no doubts in me that Wolfram is the source of Randall's mistake. The current tone of the title text section is inconsistent with the rest of this site. or defining or naming our own thing in terms of theirs So, There are real world uses to both Tau and Pi: Pi is the number that relates to what you get when you measure a circle (the distanced around divided by the distance across); and Tau is get when you draw a circle (the distance around divided by the distance from the center). report. A "Deeper into math" one, going into more depth. centigrade (cgr) minute centésimal (′) ≈ kilomètre Cool! People are so enamoured with π that they celebrate π day (14th of March), and π approximation day (22nd of July) — in fact, I will be celebrating π approximation day by writing the digits of π on the street in Adelaide. Dcoetzee (talk) 06:44, 19 November 2013 (UTC), Wow, this filled up fast. A possibility is to define eta as the ratio of the area of a circle to its inscribed square. But from the perspective of τ, the discussion is about fractions of τ, so the compromise between τ and τ/2 is τ/(3/2) (that is 2τ/3 = 4π/3). around again. If 200 were octal, that would be 128 decimal, so we would end up writing 128 decimals. the one that comes from Wolfram, that is converting 4.71238898038469 decimal to octal? Close. Hi, Dr. Butler! (Though I think Pau would lead to some interesting spherical geometry equations. Really? It’s not only irrational but also trancendental, which means you can’t write it down exactly using fractions or even square roots. Pi, Tau and Eta. ], Ok, so maybe I was wrong about not caring enough to make an empassioned speech on YouTube: —TobyBartels (talk) 20:47, 18 November 2013 (UTC), Actually, both compromises are wrong. Michael Hartl himself has referenced me in the newest version of the Tau Manifesto saying that η simplifies in particular formulas for volume/surface area of spheres in higher dimensions. There are real world uses to both Tau and Pi: Pi is the number that relates to what you get when you measure a circle (the distanced around divided by the distance across); and Tau is get when you draw a circle (the distance around divided by the distance from the center). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. with Albert Eagle’s circle constant: τ ≈ 1,570 796 326 794 896 619 231 321 691 639 751 442 098 584 699 687 552 910 487 472 296 153 908 203 143 104 499 314 017 412 671 058 533 991 074 043 256 641 153 32…, http://www.harremoes.dk/Peter/Undervis/Turnpage/Turnpage1.html. However, the pi(e) is a lie. décimilligrade (dmgr) seconde centésimal (″) ≈ décamètre 34 comments. If you start celebrating π on 3/1, and continue until 3/14, you have two weeks. --ulm (talk) 10:21, 18 November 2013 (UTC). Its decimal expansion begins 3.14159… and a not-too-bad approximation using fractions is 22/7. I propose the following outline of the section: This wiki is about explanations. For Math Fans, Nothing Can Spoil Pi Day—Except Maybe Tau Day Tomorrow, March 14, is a national holiday. rather than just one on Pi day. Tau does not break down a circle at all, it is a whole circle (using radians as measurement). we needs must stop talking or referring to either one of them, Coincidentally, e+2 is also very similar to 1.5 pi, although only to a few digits. The decimal value of pi (using a(1) * 4) matches with the value of pi to at lease 1000 digits. This thread is archived. Explain octal -- base 8 -- first for integers, then for fractions. We shouldn't bemoan a subject as being more difficult than it is; we should explain. What bothers me most is that he thinks he can convince people by telling them they’re stupid — I have never found that a healthy approach to things. 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