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The end of Pi in our science is nearing

The other day when i was browsing the internet for interesting math related topics, i came across an interesting mathematics paper on the following link

http://vixra.org/abs/1308.0126.

The title caught my attention. Out of sheer curiosity, i managed to read the paper. This author claims that there is a fundamental error in our mathematics. It's related to the circle constant - Pi. He gives strong arguments in favor of it. I would like to know what the student community has to say on this paper? How far this is true? If so, how does it impact our science?
thought that tau was just 2pi

same **** different day who gives a flying fook
Changing to tau would just be a pain in the arse. Not to mention that the area of a circle sector would become a fraction of (τ/2)r^2. Ugly.


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Arbolus
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His only argument in favour of using tau over pi seems to be that, in his opinion, it looks neater. I don't see how he's doing anything to prove that pi itself is invalid.
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james22
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There is no error, all he has done is define a new constant which is 2*pi.
In terms of practicality it would be an absolute nightmare... that said tau does make much more sense as a circle constant.

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