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::::If we create more defined tasks, we might want to consider using [http://tauday.com tau] instead of Pi. --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] 12:57, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
:::::Ugh. Can we not have that debate here? The ''only'' significant difference between pi and tau is the impact they may have on the readability and intuitive extrapolation of formulas. I see enough difficulty agreeing on task spec as is, and pi vs tau is not clearly resolvable. For the time being, I would far prefer to stick with pi, as that's the most common and mass way of representing the number, and so that's what people are more likely to recognize and understand. When [http://googlefight.com/index.php?&word1=pi&word2=tau tau beats pi by a 2:1 margin], I might be more interested. --[[User:Short Circuit|Michael Mol]] 14:21, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
::::::That's not exactly an argument on merits. And there's no reason for the use of tau to exclude the use of pi any more than the use of the number 1 excludes the use of the number 0.5. That said, if googlefight meant anything to me, I might use a smaller set of numbers? --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] 19:58, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
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