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mkl on June 29, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: The State of the Tau

Pi is just fine. It makes just as much sense as tau, has history on its side, is simpler for many formulas, etc. The Pi Manifesto has good counterarguments and heaps of examples: http://www.thepimanifesto.com/

mhartl on June 29, 2013 [–]

Many of the examples in The Pi Manifesto are wrong. See the rebuttal I posted last year:

http://tauday.com/tau-manifesto#sec-the_pi_manifesto_a_rebut...

Indeed, the author of The Pi Manifesto essentially rebutted his own work in March of last year:

http://spikedmath.com/fact-005.html

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