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Depending on your philosophical views on time and calendars and so on, today is something like the 4.5 billionth Pi Day that Earth has witnessed. But that long history is nothing compared to the infinity of pi itself.
A refresher for those of you who have forgotten your seventh-grade math lessons1: Pi, or the Greek letter , is a mathematical constant equal to the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter — C/d. It lurks in every circle, and equals approximately 3.14. (Hence Pi Day, which takes place on March 14, aka 3/14.)/.../
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SCIENCE & THE PUBLIC
Forget Pi Day. We should be celebrating Tau Day
Pi Day may be fun, but it’s based on a flawed mathematical constant. Read More
BY EMILY CONOVER
Forget Pi Day. We should be celebrating Tau Day
When it comes to teaching trigonometry, the mathematical concept of pi is flawed
NOT PIOUS Pi, the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, is revered as an all-important number in mathematics. But some are starting to question that devotion.
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As a physics reporter and lover of mathematics, I won’t be celebrating Pi Day this year. That’s because pi is wrong.
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