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Offline AlfBazTopic starter

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pi is wrong!?
« on: February 19, 2013, 04:00:34 pm »
An interesting and convincing talk on why the circle constant pi is wrong...

http://tauday.com/


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Offline c4757p

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Re: pi is wrong!?
« Reply #1 on: February 19, 2013, 04:16:03 pm »
That is a funny definition of "wrong"...
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Offline mariush

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Re: pi is wrong!?
« Reply #2 on: February 19, 2013, 06:29:36 pm »
I'll just leave this here:



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Offline firewalker

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Re: pi is wrong!?
« Reply #3 on: February 19, 2013, 06:50:56 pm »




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Offline firewalker

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Re: pi is wrong!?
« Reply #4 on: February 19, 2013, 06:58:00 pm »
In the same sense, base ten system is wrong for everyday use.



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Offline MikeK

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Re: pi is wrong!?
« Reply #5 on: February 19, 2013, 08:19:06 pm »
And conventional current flow is wrong.  So what?
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Offline AlfBazTopic starter

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Re: pi is wrong!?
« Reply #6 on: February 19, 2013, 11:13:00 pm »
Quote from: firewalker on February 19, 2013, 06:58:00 pm
In the same sense, base ten system is wrong for everyday use.
A bit late for these guys, 12 is already taken by Homer... Doh!
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Offline ivan747

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Re: pi is wrong!?
« Reply #7 on: February 20, 2013, 12:17:05 am »
I actually like the docenal system a lot. We would have 20 docenal hours a day, 10 inches would be 1 foot (and the metric system wouldn't have to be invented), ounces would work right, six packs would make more sense in my mind, and more importantly, I can express 2/3 in docenal (as opposed to decimal) without rounding.
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Offline free_electron

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Re: pi is wrong!?
« Reply #8 on: February 20, 2013, 12:19:07 am »
we should all switch to hexadecimal notation

10 fingers , two eyes, two ears, two nostrils. there.

 that'll fix it once and for all.
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Offline ivan747

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« Reply #9 on: February 20, 2013, 12:24:11 am »
Actually, I think docenal to hexadecimal is easier than decimal to hexadecimal.
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