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Re: 2000 years. pi as standard notation goes back to Euler, though of course Archimedes and others calculated it much earlier. I haven't heard of tau being con
by abecedarius 14y ago
Re: 2000 years. pi as standard notation goes back to Euler, though of course Archimedes and others calculated it much earlier.
I haven't heard of tau being considered pre-2001, though it must have happened here and there (I had the same idea independently, for example).
- opminion 14y agoAt uni, decades ago, I was told that whenever a "mathematician" appeared up on the telly, it was to present their new idea of definining a new constant equal to 2pi... Not the same now, of course, with shows like Numb3rs and Big Bang Theory, and a greater public awareness of the importance of numeracy.