Mar. 14th, 2011

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youtube vid (pleasant, includes fruit pie): why pi is (mostly) wrong (or alternately, a text reference)

tl;dr is that we might have an easier time teaching this stuff if we based circle math on radius instead of diameter.

which led to a conversation at lunch about when humans codified pi (pretty damn early) and why diameter? i posited that using diameter comes from the ease of drawing/visualizing it freehand, a radius wants a compass.

but this tau discussion reminds me of something that i had a hard time swallowing as a kid studying math: "wait, this is all arbitrary?"

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