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10/14/2016

09:40 AM Ruby master Feature #4897: Define Math::TAU and BigMath.TAU. The "true" circle constant, Tau=2*Pi. See http://tauday.com/

See also https://github.com/jneen/math-tau . sbaird (Simon Baird)

06:42 AM Ruby master Feature #4897: Define Math::TAU and BigMath.TAU. The "true" circle constant, Tau=2*Pi. See http://tauday.com/

Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote:
> At the developers' meeting this week, mrkn suggested `TWO_PI` instead.
I don't think TW... sbaird (Simon Baird)

08/11/2016

01:39 AM Ruby master Feature #4897: Define Math::TAU and BigMath.TAU. The "true" circle constant, Tau=2*Pi. See http://tauday.com/

This may be of interest: Guido van Rossum recently reopened the Python version of this request and is going to add ta... sbaird (Simon Baird)

07/02/2015

07:36 AM Ruby master Feature #4897: Define Math::TAU and BigMath.TAU. The "true" circle constant, Tau=2*Pi. See http://tauday.com/

I'm a bit late, but here it is rebased for Tau Day 2015:
* https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/644
sbaird (Simon Baird)

06/28/2014

08:49 AM Ruby master Feature #4897: Define Math::TAU and BigMath.TAU. The "true" circle constant, Tau=2*Pi. See http://tauday.com/

Since today is 6/28, here's a pull request on trunk:
* https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/644
See also:
* htt... sbaird (Simon Baird)

03/01/2013

09:46 AM Ruby master Feature #4897: Define Math::TAU and BigMath.TAU. The "true" circle constant, Tau=2*Pi. See http://tauday.com/

I don't think the benchmarks are particularly relevant here. We should define Tau because it's important, not for any... sbaird (Simon Baird)

09:37 AM Ruby master Feature #4897: Define Math::TAU and BigMath.TAU. The "true" circle constant, Tau=2*Pi. See http://tauday.com/

david_macmahon (David MacMahon) wrote:
> I vote -1 on this idea because the name "TAU" is used in a number of field... sbaird (Simon Baird)

02/25/2013

10:34 PM Ruby master Feature #4897: Define Math::TAU and BigMath.TAU. The "true" circle constant, Tau=2*Pi. See http://tauday.com/

https://github.com/search?q=%22TAU+%3D+2+%2A+Math.PI%22&type=Code
https://github.com/search?q=%22TAU+%3D+PI+*+2%22... sbaird (Simon Baird)

06/18/2011

08:33 AM Ruby master Feature #4897: Define Math::TAU and BigMath.TAU. The "true" circle constant, Tau=2*Pi. See http://tauday.com/

See http://tauday.com/
Edit: particularly http://tauday.com/tau-manifesto sbaird (Simon Baird)

08:28 AM Ruby master Feature #4897: Define Math::TAU and BigMath.TAU. The "true" circle constant, Tau=2*Pi. See http://tauday.com/

Direct link to the gist containing my patch:
https://gist.github.com/1029552
Edit: mention this is a patch (pluid61'... sbaird (Simon Baird)