(the title says “circle number”, but there is no appropriate english translation that i could find)

  • agamemnonymous
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    16 days ago

    π is the ratio between a circle’s diameter and its circumference. While diameter was much easier to measure historically, that ratio is unnecessarily arbitrary.

    τ is the ratio between a circle’s radius and circumference. The radius much more directly defines a circle, so τ is the more fundamental ratio.

    ½τ more obviously indicates the geometric significance of its coefficient than 2π.