Happy Pi Day! Just kidding. I'm here to tell you that everything you know about pi is a lie. You see, pi, as a number, is bad. We get it by dividing the circumference of a circle by its diameter. But the thing is, we don’t actually use diameter to describe circles. We use the radius in nearly every piece of math. Plug that into our circle constant equation, and you get a new circle constant equivalent to 2π, or 6.28318530717..., which is colloquially referred to as tau, represented with the Greek letter τ. I don't have time to get into this here, but just know that tau is way better. It makes math simpler, it makes radian angles make more sense, and it's basically superior in nearly every respect. Tau Day — the true circle constant holiday — is celebrated on June 28th (6/28). See you in 106 days! -Chaim |