On Friday 11 October 2013 12:49:40 Roy Smith did opine:
> In article <mailman.1001.1381491074.18130.python-l...@python.org>,
>
> Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benja...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > If someone tried to explain why their field couldn't use ً for the
> > circumference of a unit circle I would suggest that they adjust the
> > other parts of their notation not ً (there are other uses of ً.
>
> Pi is wrong:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG7vhMMXagQ
The funnily/serious part of this current "comedy central session" is that,
speaking as someone who was too busy fixing tv's for a living in the 1950
era, to go far enough in school to get any really higher math, (algebra
enough to solve ohms law etc was all I usually needed) the above argument
has always made perfect sense to me, and I have often arrived at the
correct answer to some problem by using 2Pi, but usually without calling it
Tau. And even that wasn't needed often enough to keep my mind fresh about
it. But I managed to get the job done anyway, those two tv cameras that
were on the Trieste when it went into the Challenger Deep in 1960 had
traces of my fingerprints in them.
Cheers, Gene
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