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Happy Pi Day!

ultraviolet said:
the only thing that I really know much about (or care about) pi is that the symbol looks vaguely like a little house.

guess who failed mathematics consistently in her exams
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Me too. Although I always thought it kinda looked more like a stereotypical ancient Roman building with columns and stuff.

I forgot it was even Pi Day the other day. Nobody in any of my schools ever brought in pie. >:
 
Saint Walker said:
What's wrong with it? One must admit it makes things a bit easier for people who are just learning Trig.
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Learning I guess, but it just seems pretty pointless beyond that. Once you get used to it it's not that bad.
The numbers would still be exactly the same and since pi has already been defined I guess I just don't see the use of combining two constants like that, especially since one of the constants is as easy as pie just 2.

It sort of annoys me that a lot of the video is about the pie, and she says "it should be as simple that one pi is a pie" but naming it tau takes away the sort-of-joke being used that pi sounds like pie :(

EDIT: Also the sum of all 1/n^2 being (tau^2)/24 is even uglier looking than it already was :(

EDIT2: And tau is used when working with torque(?) and since that involves rotation it would easily get confusing.
 
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also for those poor sixth graders learning the area of a circle, A = (tau/2)r^2 will be a pain.
 
Pwnemon said:
also for those poor sixth graders learning the area of a circle, A = (tau/2)r^2 will be a pain.
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D:< Hey! Was that on purpose?! I'M in sixth grade. That looks offensive! *whips out shield*
 
Tau is Pi * 2.
6.28ish, that is.
Don't have time to think about it now, though.
Too many numbers and values for too early in the morning.
 
Pi Day! (it's actually pronounced the same way as the letter p in classical greek, but whatever)

My trig class is having a pie party :D
 
Happy Pi Day!

I closed my eyes before coming into this thread, and all I could remember was 3.1... I'm not good at maths. :(
 
Yeah, me neither. 3.1415 is all I got. Although I don't think pi day is really done in the UK (because we put our date a nice, logical way around), and if it is, us sociologists definitely don't observe it.
 
I'm a maths student and I didn't hear anyone mention it today. I didn't realise it was pi day until I saw this thread again.
 
Dannichu said:
Yeah, me neither. 3.1415 is all I got. Although I don't think pi day is really done in the UK (because we put our date a nice, logical way around), and if it is, us sociologists definitely don't observe it.
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I don't even really know what pi is. :D
 
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