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For Pi Day this year, UC Berkeley arranged for one of their high-profile professors, astrophysicist Alexei Filippenko to do an AMA. Guess what the top-voted question/comment was. (325 upboats) -- Joseph Lindenberg ( talk) 02:29, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
In my opinion, "Tau (mathematical constant)" is not notable unless it has made its way into publications in mathematics. I'd suggest creating an article circle constant instead, which could contrast the standard circle constant π with other proposals/possibilities such as 2π (computed by Jamshīd al-Kāshī to 9 sexagesimal digits in 1424, see approximations of pi), and π/2 (proposed by Albert Eagle in 1958, see pi)) including any available historic references. It would be of particular interest to scrutinize references prior to 1706, i.e. when the symbol π was first used to represent the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, regarding whether they imply a value for the ratio circumference to diameter of a circle or actually something else. Isheden ( talk) 07:49, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
Unlike most drafts, whenever this article is considered potentially ready for mainspace, it will require a fairly large consensus to do so, because it was removed from mainspace via WP:AfD (although not under this name). — Arthur Rubin (talk) 19:59, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
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This page has archives. Sections older than 14 days may be automatically archived by Lowercase sigmabot III when more than 3 sections are present. |
For Pi Day this year, UC Berkeley arranged for one of their high-profile professors, astrophysicist Alexei Filippenko to do an AMA. Guess what the top-voted question/comment was. (325 upboats) -- Joseph Lindenberg ( talk) 02:29, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
In my opinion, "Tau (mathematical constant)" is not notable unless it has made its way into publications in mathematics. I'd suggest creating an article circle constant instead, which could contrast the standard circle constant π with other proposals/possibilities such as 2π (computed by Jamshīd al-Kāshī to 9 sexagesimal digits in 1424, see approximations of pi), and π/2 (proposed by Albert Eagle in 1958, see pi)) including any available historic references. It would be of particular interest to scrutinize references prior to 1706, i.e. when the symbol π was first used to represent the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, regarding whether they imply a value for the ratio circumference to diameter of a circle or actually something else. Isheden ( talk) 07:49, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
Unlike most drafts, whenever this article is considered potentially ready for mainspace, it will require a fairly large consensus to do so, because it was removed from mainspace via WP:AfD (although not under this name). — Arthur Rubin (talk) 19:59, 11 July 2014 (UTC)