Name:
Anonymous
2010-07-10 13:16
Here is a compelling, interesting, coherent argument for a new circle constant :
http://tauday.com/
Name:
4tran
2010-12-20 9:31
One major gripe I have is that using his convention would require a redefinition of sin/cos/tan/etc (he hints at it in his article).
This would turn their taylor series into horrible messes.
sin/cos in particular are important as solutions to
y" = -y
I suppose at some level, you could just shrug all this off and just use the exponential function.
To be fair, I should reveal that I despise the letter tau for no obvious reason.