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Is π wrong?

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    #11
    Π fights back

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      #12
      Originally posted by OwlHoot View Post
      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.
      Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!

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        #13
        Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
        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.

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          #14
          Originally posted by TimberWolf View Post
          Have you been monitoring the whole internet again?
          Somebody's got to keep an eye on it, or who knows what might happen?

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            #15
            Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post

            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)
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