Tau Day: Recycling Ideas · 10:59pm Jun 28th, 2017
Tau day - 6.28 - has come around again, so I have the once-a-year chance to plug The Tau of Two Pie and make some circle jokes which you have heard before.
Tau day - 6.28 - has come around again, so I have the once-a-year chance to plug The Tau of Two Pie and make some circle jokes which you have heard before.
As Walabio never fails to remind me, Tau Day (τ=6.28) has come around again. The once-a-year chance to celebate all things 2π. Of course, to the followers of tau, this is the true path, and pi is merely τ/2. Whatever angle you take on this circular discussion, have fun, and remember to respect people of all faiths and circle constants.
A few weeks ago Walabio suggested I write a blog post for Tau Day. Tau Day, for those to whom this is all Greek, is an obvious extension of pi day: pi=π=3.14=March 14; tau=τ=2π=6.28=June 28. The benefits of using tau (defined as the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its radius), in place of the considerably more widely used pi (ratio of the circumference to the diameter), are partly that it is more natural, and
¡Today is TauDay! It is a day devoted to the 1 True CircleConstant:
τ = ( c / r ) ≈ 6.28318530717959
It fall on this day because the decimal expansion looks like this date (yyyyy-06-28). For more information, go to TauDay.Com: