Is π wrong?

[NickFitz]

Π fights back

 

[NotAllThere]

It's all as daft as a brush IMHO, like arguing whether sine or cosine is more "fundamental"...

The correct combination of i and e removes the necessity for sin/cos entirely.

 

[TimberWolf]

Π fights back

Last updated July 4th, 2011

(yesterday)

Have you been monitoring the whole internet again?

The most persuasive argument for 2 Π for me is consistency, Π being related to a circle which is [usually] defined by its radius rather than diameter, and so its value would appear to favour the circumference/radius ratio rather than circumference/diameter, but I suppose there's no reason why a circle should be defined by the ratio of either those two measures. Not sure I'm entirely convinced by the area [of a unit circle] argument.

 

[NickFitz]

Have you been monitoring the whole internet again?

Somebody's got to keep an eye on it, or who knows what might happen?

 

[OwlHoot]

The correct combination of i and e removes the necessity for sin/cos entirely.

Try a similar stunt for their generalizations sn(k,u) / cn(k,u) /dn(k,u)