Deltango Vale Posted June 28, 2011 Share Posted June 28, 2011 A year or so ago, there was a delightful thread that 'degenerated' into a war between pie and cake. Little did I know at the time that it was merely a precursor to a much greater battle. Well, the gloves are off and I can see this topic will dominate the fora for years to come. Child avis, pffft. Firestorm v V2, yawn. SL v FB, zzzzzzz. It's time to unleash Pi v Tau:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13906169 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dresden Ceriano Posted June 28, 2011 Share Posted June 28, 2011 I have to side with Kate Bush on this. ...Dres Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storm Clarence Posted June 28, 2011 Share Posted June 28, 2011 2Pi is better than one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venus Petrov Posted June 28, 2011 Share Posted June 28, 2011 I prefer a dark piece of chocolate to roll around in my mouth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deltango Vale Posted June 28, 2011 Author Share Posted June 28, 2011 I present to you the best chocolate to be found on planet Earth: http://www.debauve-et-gallais.com/v1/shop/?lg=en Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liisa Runo Posted June 28, 2011 Share Posted June 28, 2011 http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=pi&word2=tau Broccoli and cheese PI for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storm Clarence Posted June 28, 2011 Share Posted June 28, 2011 Appointed by the king of France? 1800's? That's some pretty old and 'stale' chocolate, I would think. I will send some fresh chocolate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venus Petrov Posted June 28, 2011 Share Posted June 28, 2011 Mmm...chocolate.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dillon Levenque Posted June 28, 2011 Share Posted June 28, 2011 How could this have happened? I've been deliberately lied to and misled my whole life! I feel used. And stupid. Fie on pi! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Void Singer Posted June 28, 2011 Share Posted June 28, 2011 all well and good, except they need a different name for their constant... Tau already has a definition... and it's NOT constant. =P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darrius Gothly Posted June 28, 2011 Share Posted June 28, 2011 Awww ... c'mon Void. You're enough of a geek to know that old saying: "Variables won't, Constants aren't" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storm Clarence Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 Osborn's Law echos the laws of programming: all constants are variables. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zippity Neutra Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 So... if this tau is taking over the world, I won't have to deal with radians when relearning LSL? :smileytongue: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charolotte Caxton Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 yay math! is not pie? no chockolatte? nvm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Void Singer Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 yes, but programming geekery doesn't override my math geekery. true story: while in school I independently recreated the Sieve of Eratosthenes, by accident no less, to help with my homework, never having heard of it before... and went on to find two rules for primes before I learned about them (actually 1 rule, and a corollary I've never seen mentioned anywhere else). I was a math geek before I was a programming geek, which is why it's so embarrassing to admit that rotations still give me headaches and I just memorize the formulas and not the math. ETA: yes, I'm aware of the irony, that in different fields of math, some symbols have different meanings, but tau is a basic geometry variable, and it wouldn't do to have two conflicting uses in the same field... it's an interesting idea, although I'm not sure that I agree with the premise, I just think it needs a different symbol (a similar argument could be made the the circumference should be the base, giving constants for D and R of 0.3138 and 0.1592 respectively... but it's easier to measure a diameter or radius than a circumference) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deltango Vale Posted June 29, 2011 Author Share Posted June 29, 2011 Your homework assignment (and a prize of US$1 million): http://www.claymath.org/millennium/Riemann_Hypothesis/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Void Singer Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 once upon a time I'd have taken a shot at that.... back before what I know now namely, that not only have greater minds tried and failed using methods far beyond me; but they've also spent large portions of their life on it. ps. that corrolary I was talking about? given a linear series of prime numbers starting at the first (n[1] which is 2), and ending at n[x], the sieve method can reliably find all primes up to n[x+1]^2 which will be the first one it misidentifies as prime.... it's a consequence of the square law, but very useful in computing your maximum numerical value you can handle when building a list sieve on the fly. mathematically it's probably too inconsequential to note, but procedurally it's significant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maryanne Solo Posted July 1, 2011 Share Posted July 1, 2011 Hmm... can I just have Quiche plz ^^ :smileysad: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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