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Good article, and your arguments are strong. As long as we're being contentious, though, I would like to point out that e is a more interesting number than τ o
by abrahamdemoivre 15y ago
Good article, and your arguments are strong. As long as we're being contentious, though, I would like to point out that e is a more interesting number than τ or π. Sure, you can make circles with π (or τ) and do angular calculations galore, but without e you've really got nothing more than that. Rate of growth? Compound interest? Hidden things of the universe? Fuhgedaboutit.
- mhartl 15y agoThe Tau Manifesto author here. Don't yell it too loudly, but I strongly agree: e is by far the most important of these numbers. But e is the natural choice, so I don't have any bone to pick with it. (Bob Palais made an analogy in "Pi Is Wrong!" Suppose e were defined as 1/2.718281828... Then there would be confusing negative signs everywhere. Exponential decay would have a positive exponent, etc. Such is the case with τ and π, with a factor of 2 in place of a factor of -1.)