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I think it's not too much about doing maths, but instead about teaching maths. It's much easier to explain to a kid that the angle of a slice of pizza is tau/8
by epidemian 13y ago
I think it's not too much about doing maths, but instead about teaching maths. It's much easier to explain to a kid that the angle of a slice of pizza is tau/8 (that is, if you cut your pizzas in 8 slices), and a quarter of a pizza has a tau/4 angle, and so on, instead of their pi equivalents. The idea that 1 tau = 1 turn is very powerful and simple.
- nandemo 13y agoOK, where are those elementary school teachers who care about tau then?
- tripzilch 13y agoanecdote, N=1: I was explaining some basic trig to a child and while I was at it also explained the concept of tau. The kid said he liked tau better :) (I was careful to also explain that his schoolteachers probably didn't know about tau so he needed to know 2pi as well)