No, really, pi is wrong: The Tau Manifesto by Michael Hartl

Michael Hartl, founder of Tau Day and author of The Tau Manifesto, argues that no, really, pi is wrong. The talk was given on Tau Day (6.28.2011) at the California Institute of Technology. Read more about tau at http://tauday.com/.

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[ThinkPi314]

oh no...I need a new username FML

[fyra165792]

22:55 ok, i seriously cracked up bigtime.

[Timothy Holmes]

oh this would be cool if circles were real, but they're not

[Harry Roberts]

Can we make the Coulomb an SI base unit over the Ampere at the same time, as charge is clearly the more fundamental quantity. Current is just charge over time: a derivative eughhh.

[mmrocks99]

omfg i swear i paused when i wrote that comment. \/ I love this guy already. Lmao he is me.

[mmrocks99]

"What kind of pathetic person even memories 50 digits of pi?" Welp my life's been a waste.

[Owen Robert]

I stumbled into the hardcore ballet-nerd section of YouTube. Wowza

[gridsleep]

Notice that couple that got up to leave at about 18:00? Then they sat back down after the armed guards at the door told them to get back to their seats and listen to the 'perfesser.'

[Ellen Wang]

Let's switch the sign of the electron charge next.

[twkolejofil]

Set a is thickness and z is radius of pizza. Then we have pizza's volume V = πzza - does it look familiar?

[pknodle]

Wait, why don't you just use pi and pi-bar like physics use h and h-bar for Plank's constant?