Yes. The world is a lesser place today. -Dave On 03/14/2018 09:35 PM, Dean Notarnicola via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Mourning for Prof. Hawking has supplanted Pi day festivities 😢
On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 9:33 PM Jim Scheef via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Are we not posting today to honor Pi Day? Jim
-- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA
To paraphrase Newton: "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants like Hawking" On 3/14/2018 9:36 PM, Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Yes. The world is a lesser place today.
-Dave
On 03/14/2018 09:35 PM, Dean Notarnicola via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Mourning for Prof. Hawking has supplanted Pi day festivities 😢
On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 9:33 PM Jim Scheef via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Are we not posting today to honor Pi Day? Jim
Something Hawking would appreciate: I could not determine the cause without first observing that there had been no posts. News reports of Hawking's passing have been beyond lame. Jim On Wed, 14 Mar 2018, Martin A Flynn via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2018 21:41:44 -0400 From: Martin A Flynn via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> To: vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org Cc: Martin A Flynn <maflynn@theflynn.org> Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] No posts in honor of Pi Day
To paraphrase Newton: "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants like Hawking"
On 3/14/2018 9:36 PM, Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Yes. The world is a lesser place today.
-Dave
On 03/14/2018 09:35 PM, Dean Notarnicola via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Mourning for Prof. Hawking has supplanted Pi day festivities 😢
On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 9:33 PM Jim Scheef via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Are we not posting today to honor Pi Day? Jim
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On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 10:56 PM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2018/3/14/17119388/pi-day-pie- math-tau-circle-constant-mathematics-circumference-diameter- radius-holiday-truth
Simple, because it's utterly ridiculous to create a constant based upon another constant using a simple coefficient, eg Tau = 2*PI All of the rationale they used in that article has no merit Tau would not exist if it were not for Pi Dan -- _ ____ / \__/ Scotty, We Need More Power !! \_/ _\__ Aye, Cap'n, but we've only got 80 columns !!
On 3/15/2018 5:36 AM, Dan Roganti via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 10:56 PM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2018/3/14/17119388/pi-day-pie- math-tau-circle-constant-mathematics-circumference-diameter- radius-holiday-truth
Simple, because it's utterly ridiculous to create a constant based upon another constant using a simple coefficient, eg Tau = 2*PI All of the rationale they used in that article has no merit Tau would not exist if it were not for Pi
Actually, it is a bit more complicated than that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcPTiiiYDs8 Â Â Â Â -Adam
On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 8:33 AM, Adam Michlin via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
On 3/15/2018 5:36 AM, Dan Roganti via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 10:56 PM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2018/3/14/17119388/pi-day-pie-
math-tau-circle-constant-mathematics-circumference-diameter- radius-holiday-truth
Simple, because it's utterly ridiculous to create a constant based upon another constant using a simple coefficient, eg Tau = 2*PI All of the rationale they used in that article has no merit Tau would not exist if it were not for Pi
Actually, it is a bit more complicated than that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcPTiiiYDs8
-Adam
yea, more rationale, ​I'll believe when they start selling a scientific calculator with "Tau"​ button ​Dan​ -- _ ____ / \__/ Scotty, We Need More Power !! \_/ _\__ Aye, Cap'n, but we've only got 80 columns !!
I agree with Dan. On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 8:54 AM, Dan Roganti via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 8:33 AM, Adam Michlin via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
On 3/15/2018 5:36 AM, Dan Roganti via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 10:56 PM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2018/3/14/17119388/pi-day-pie-
math-tau-circle-constant-mathematics-circumference-diameter- radius-holiday-truth
Simple, because it's utterly ridiculous to create a constant based upon another constant using a simple coefficient, eg Tau = 2*PI All of the rationale they used in that article has no merit Tau would not exist if it were not for Pi
Actually, it is a bit more complicated than that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcPTiiiYDs8
-Adam
yea, more rationale, ​I'll believe when they start selling a scientific calculator with "Tau"​ button ​Dan​
-- _ ____ / \__/ Scotty, We Need More Power !! \_/ _\__ Aye, Cap'n, but we've only got 80 columns !!
Or, is using 2pi so entrenched that it has become defacto regardless of utility? Kind of like DST? On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 2:16 PM Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
I agree with Dan.
On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 8:54 AM, Dan Roganti via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 8:33 AM, Adam Michlin via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
On 3/15/2018 5:36 AM, Dan Roganti via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 10:56 PM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2018/3/14/17119388/pi-day-pie-
math-tau-circle-constant-mathematics-circumference-diameter- radius-holiday-truth
Simple, because it's utterly ridiculous to create a constant based upon another constant using a simple coefficient, eg Tau = 2*PI All of the rationale they used in that article has no merit Tau would not exist if it were not for Pi
Actually, it is a bit more complicated than that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcPTiiiYDs8
-Adam
yea, more rationale, ​I'll believe when they start selling a scientific calculator with "Tau"​ button ​Dan​
-- _ ____ / \__/ Scotty, We Need More Power !! \_/ _\__ Aye, Cap'n, but we've only got 80 columns !!
On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 2:23 PM, Dean Notarnicola via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Or, is using 2pi so entrenched that it has become defacto regardless of utility? Kind of like DST?
On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 2:16 PM Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
I agree with Dan.
​it's just things like this cause some geeks to get their tuchas in a tizzy​, whenever somebody mentions the name Euler, oohh........but of course Euler is very important But you don't have to write several hundred papers like him to be the only one to making a contribution to math or science. When if you just read the history books, instead of wikipedaphilia or watching youtube fanboys, there are 3 significant events about PI before Euler was even born.... #1, about 4000yrs yrs ago this mathematical constant was discovered - this isn't hard to believe - but it wasn't called PI yet #2 about 380+yrs ago, the term PI was coined in publications, but for a dfferent constant - now this might be hard to believe if you don't read #3, about 310+yrs ago, a mathematician made the calculation of PI to several significant digits - and this might be hard to believe since it was an obscure mathematician Euler had no involvement with PI in regards to it's constant. this is what was taught in schools before the advent of the Interweb Dan -- _ ____ / \__/ Scotty, We Need More Power !! \_/ _\__ Aye, Cap'n, but we've only got 80 columns !!
Or, is using 2pi so entrenched that it has become defacto regardless of utility? Kind of like DST?
On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 2:16 PM Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
I agree with Dan.
​it's just things like this cause some geeks to get their tuchas in a tizzy
I don't care either way, just stumbled onto the article about a pi alternative and thought it was interesting. PS. Dan please respond privately to the text message I sent you today. It's important, I need to send you something in snail mial.
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