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@realitista@lemm.ee to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish • 2 months ago

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27589038

  • Zagorath
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    What’s the significance of that number? It’s less than 0.1 away from tau, but somehow I doubt that’s it…

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      • Ziglin (it/they)
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        An experimental physicist should know as far as I know meanwhile a real (theoretical) physicist would probably not even touch numbers that have those scary decimals.

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      I can’t be arsed to check but I think it’s 2 pi which is useful when dealing with sine waves.

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        2 pi is tau, which is what I said it’s less than 0.1 away from, but still not equal to.

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          Reminds me of: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1292:_Pi_vs._Tau

          And: https://www.tauday.com/tau-manifesto

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            For me, it was this video. It came out shortly after I graduated high school, and though I was pretty good at maths, I struggled to really conceptualise the fundamental intuition behind trigonometric functions and the (polar) complex plane. Instead, I was relying on brute memorisation of the unit triangles. Learning about tau and how it relates just instantly caused everything to click with me.

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              That’s a fantastic video. I follow Numberphile but never saw this one, thanks for sharing.

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