Well, I guess I finally got under your skin, so this is it for civilized discussion. It was never my intention to undervalue what Pi represents, and what it meant for Math (even if I would rather have Tau as the circle constant). I don't pretend to know more math than everyone here, but at the very least you and some…
asm
asm
Dude, I sincerely don't know how else to explain it. Numbers are not naturally decimals, decimals are just one single way to represent quantities. If you write Pi as a binary sequence it'll also generate an infinite series, but a totally different one. There's nothing special about 3.14159265358979... It's just one…
If you are willing to use the radius for the area and the diameter for the circumference, you might as well use π for the area and τ for the circumference. Not that I encourage that.
Yes, Pi can totally be reduced in simplicity without reducing its precision. Besides the method I already mentioned of setting the unit as Pi, you can use inverse trigonometric functions (e.g. 4*arctan(1) ) or simply use "Pi". Which is what we're using. It's all symbols, even "1".
But we also have ½kx², ½mv², etc... The ½ constant is a natural consequence of integration. I agree it's not something to be praised, but it still makes a whole lot more sense than 2πr (for the circumference).
I can't blame you for arriving at this video with no context, but if you do watch her other videos you'll see:
No, its decimal series goes on forever. You could theoretically define an algebraic system base Pi, in which Pi=1. But then, again, 1 is still technically ...000(1.)000..., which is also an infinite series. So saying Pi is infinite is meaningless.
Nope. I've always written "take π=τ/2" in my Math tests since Vi Hart's "Pi is (still) wrong" and went on using Tau for every calculation. I've never had an issue. Tau wins.
I wish I could give you a hundred stars just this once. I'm scared by how much hatred Vi Hart is getting for this video. It's not even like she actually despises Pi (she's got a bunch of cool videos about it!), and if anyone bothered to see some of her other videos they would realize just how insightful and…
No, it IS more correct than Pi. That's the point of the Manifesto. Saying Pi is just as correct is like saying 1/2 is just as good as 1 for multiplication. "You can just multiply it by two to get the same result!". Duh! Why not have a factor of 1/2 implicit in every mathematical expression, then, so we can write the…
Interesting how nowhere in the (admittedly short) article or in the discussion section there's mention that the game is set in 18th century Brazil and has a Brazilian slave as the main character. You know, slavery is a great part of our History as well.
Not just specific, but more accurate. It's become sort of a standard to call the European version just Portuguese and specify when it's Brazilian Portuguese. The two languages are far enough apart that neither side likes to have stuff in the other's version. Speaking for the Brazilians, most of us would rather have…
Or Brazilian Portuguese, to be more accurate. The Brazilian version is different enough that most of us would rather watch stuff in English than in the European version of our language.
Sounds like one of the games my university's game development group was making. But then, I had already told them about Chronotron, so I guess they don't care.
I'm actually impressed most of them could tell more or less what the piece of plastic and metal was for. I guess we have those legacy symbols going around to thank for:
Try this one: 1, 3, 21, 123, 1101, ?
I once proposed that sequence at school as an open problem (even to the teachers!) and after a couple of frustrating days I gave up as the only Lost-geek of the hill.
I got the right rule as soon as that guy proposed 1,2,3 and it worked. Not mind boggling, but a good problem to propose to random people.