Came across a link to this article on digg today, and I thought it was pretty interesting. In short, this guy isn't saying the actual value of Pi is wrong, but that Pi should have been defined as 2Pi. In other words, instead of Pi being the ratio between the circumference and diameter of a circle, it would be the ratio between the circumference and the radius. It would have cleaned up the factor of 2 that appears in many formulas that use Pi. I especially like the analogy early in the article comparing radian measure to a clock, that is really the main point of the entire article.
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Interesting Article
Article - "Pi is Wrong"
Came across a link to this article on digg today, and I thought it was pretty interesting. In short, this guy isn't saying the actual value of Pi is wrong, but that Pi should have been defined as 2Pi. In other words, instead of Pi being the ratio between the circumference and diameter of a circle, it would be the ratio between the circumference and the radius. It would have cleaned up the factor of 2 that appears in many formulas that use Pi. I especially like the analogy early in the article comparing radian measure to a clock, that is really the main point of the entire article.
Came across a link to this article on digg today, and I thought it was pretty interesting. In short, this guy isn't saying the actual value of Pi is wrong, but that Pi should have been defined as 2Pi. In other words, instead of Pi being the ratio between the circumference and diameter of a circle, it would be the ratio between the circumference and the radius. It would have cleaned up the factor of 2 that appears in many formulas that use Pi. I especially like the analogy early in the article comparing radian measure to a clock, that is really the main point of the entire article.
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3 comments:
I drew a circle once...
The guy has a point. Very compelling argument.
I love lamp
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