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02/28/2013

07:38 AM Ruby Feature #4897: Define Math::TAU and BigMath.TAU. The "true" circle constant, Tau=2*Pi. See http://tauday.com/
david_macmahon (David MacMahon) wrote:
> For example, tau is also used as a constant representing the golden ratio (1.618...).
No, not anymore. φ (phi) is used for that now.
JosephLindenberg (Joseph Lindenberg)
07:10 AM Ruby Feature #4897: Define Math::TAU and BigMath.TAU. The "true" circle constant, Tau=2*Pi. See http://tauday.com/
The Processing programming language recently added TAU:
http://code.google.com/p/processing/source/browse/trunk/processing/core/src/processing/core/PConstants.java
It does seem to be showing up more and more frequently. Here's ...
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