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bipi
prefix the old constant to identify the constant we actually want | |
There have been a few proposals to define a constant to
replace pi and eliminate that 2 that appears almost
everywhere that pi is used. Tau is the current favourite.
My proposal is to formalise the bi-pi as the official
constant.
Though I'm not sure that's the right prefix. Should it be
dipi? dupi? binpi? The column on wikipedia that contains
'kilo' also contains 'di'.
Anyway, correctness is clearly not the point.
If the gram can use a prefix to fix a horrible mistake and
promote itself to an SI base unit, then surely the same
reasoning applies to pi.
Numeral prefixes on Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedi...wiki/Numeral_prefix
[b153b, May 12 2017]
Gay bomb
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_bomb
Prior art for the bisexual pie [notexactly, May 13 2017]
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// 2 that appears almost everywhere that pi is used. // |
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... apart from that common equation for the area of a circle, pi x radius ^ 2. Then again, it might make sense to introduce a "/2" to that equation and then use 6.28 everywhere else. |
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//correctness is clearly not the point// |
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Hey, [b153b], let me be the first to welcome you to the Halfbakery. |
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Are you aware that your user name is also a model number for a bikini? The things that google will tell you ... |
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Maybe promote pi/3.14 as a new constant, call it I (that's capital i). Would make calculation that bit simpler. |
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Bisexual pie = A pie containing drugs that make you want to love everybody. Very popular at new age festivals like Burning Man. |
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// make you want to love everybody // |
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Make you love everybody, or just make you want to love everybody - without the actual love ? |
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Is it non-transitive, or merely aspirational ? These details are important... |
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Hopefully printed on the package along with
microwaving instructions and shoplifting warnings.
And the cautions about driving while intoxicated
with pie. |
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Presumably this would be while driving a Chevvy to the levee ... |
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// Are you aware that your user name is also a model
number for a bikini? // |
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My due diligence did not extend as far as that, but I can
live with it. |
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I just wanted to make sure I didn't accidentally assume
the moniker of something used in a war crime, hate
crime, terrorist act, or something Trump might have said. |
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Although, now that I think of it there is Bikini Atoll and
the associated abuse of its native population. Bother. |
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// abuse of its native population // |
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But ... they weren't white, they weren't registered voters, and they lived in a small, hot country far away ... what's the problem here ? |
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