To PI or not two PI

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13906169
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG7vhMMXagQ
They should teach that in schools or something.
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I've never really considered it before reading the thing on Aunty but Tau does make a hell of a lot of sense when you think about it.
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Just tell me which is going to be in the state's standards, and that's what I'll teach.
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The Pi is a lie!
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wow mountain out of molehill!
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If it's only 2x bigger than the molehill, does it qualify as a mountain? Perhaps to worms and and kids on off road skateboards.
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Clay_Pigeon wrote:QUOTE (Clay_Pigeon @ Jun 28 2011, 05:58 PM) Just tell me which is going to be in the state's standards, and that's what I'll teach.
Forget standards, start a revolution comrade!
Just tell them to write τ=2π at the start of their working for each question involving PI - the examiner can't fault them then (by claiming that tau is undefined where as pi is) ;)

I like that if you think of a tower (a round one), the circumference is τr [tau r, or 'tower' ] - thus the circumference of a tower is tower.
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Clay_Pigeon wrote:QUOTE (Clay_Pigeon @ Jun 28 2011, 11:58 AM) Just tell me which is going to be in the state's standards...
Whatever is on the standardized tests!

*hands you the DRC and NCS answer booklets* Here's your new curriculum, Mr. Pigeon!
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I think we should just dust off the Indiana bill that wanted to legislate pi to be 3.2 (amongst other answers).
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I don't understand how this changes anything. Teachers have more important things to do than creating useless constants and adding garbage to the mathematical apparatus, and mathematicians will just not give a crap about it
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