Happy τ Day!

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Today (6.28 for Americans; 28.06 for people who are wrong*... :P) is Tau Day, a day dedicated to Pi's obscure rival: Tau. There are those who argue that π (the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter) is not the best choice as the circle constant, and τ (the ratio of a circle's circumference to its radius) is the better choice. The website I linked to makes a compelling argument: after all, just look at how many times "2π" appears in mathematical formulas.

Anyway, since a circle's radius is half its diameter, τ is always equal to 2π, or approximately 6.283185307179586… Here, snagged from The Nerdist, is a clip of Michael John Blake's musical tribute to Tau: (It's gorgeous!)

(*Kidding! You're not wrong. I agree it makes more logical sense to go Day-Month-Year. But my birthday is 1.23 under the American system, and I am not giving that up. :P)

15 days meme

Day 01: Introduce yourself. List your likes and dislikes.
Day 02: Make a bulleted list of everything that happened in your day.
Day 03: Smile! We want to see your teeth today. Post a self-portrait.
Day 04: Share your favorite quote/song lyric.
Day 05: Share your favorite recipe.
Day 06: List 5 countries you'd like to visit.
Day 07: Provide pictures of 5 celebrity crushes.
Day 08: Create a bucket list, whether or not your aspirations are rational.
Day 09: Describe your food consumption today.
Day 10: Share some of your current favorite tunes.
Day 11: List some of your favorite tumblrs.

This will be a short list, 'cause I don't spend much time on Tumblr:
-sex is not the enemy. (NSFW: sexually-exlicit images. But awesome links to articles about sex and sexuality, too.)
-texts from the TARDIS

That's about it. :P

Your challenge, should you choose to accept it: sell me on Tumblr. Link me to your favorite ones. Tell me why it's good. If you have a tumblr, let me know.

Day 12: Set a goal.
Day 13: Provide the HEX code(s) of your favorite color(s).
Day 14: Post a Youtube video that makes you laugh/inspires you.
Day 15: Make a voicepost in another language besides your native one.

Comments

[ladylovelace.livejournal.com]

Not that I'm particularly good at maths (because the numbers jump all over the place on me, bastards), but I tend to think that Tau would be better. It's much easier to accurately measure a circle from centre to edge than widest point to widest point. Not that anyone cares what I think in relation to maths, because as mentioned: I suck.

I wish I could show you a favourite Tumblr, but I am a very casual user.

[apple-pathways.livejournal.com]

I'll tell ya, the article had me convinced! Especially when you consider that a circle is defined as a continuous curve, each point of which is spaced equidistant from a fixed point (that distance being called the 'radius'), it just makes more sense to use Tau.

(And no, no, no! None of this "I suck at math"! I spend my day talking children out of that attitude. The more I tutor, the more I'm convinced that everyone can like math, so long as they find the approach that makes sense to them.)

Yeah, I'll occasionally lose an hour or so flipping back through a particular tumblr, but I've never seen the point of "following" a particular one.

Edited because apparently when I talk about math, I forget how to spell! :P

[ladylovelace.livejournal.com]

I actually rather like theoretical maths. It's the stuff with numbers I have trouble with, purely because I'm dyscalculaic and therefore cannot make them stay in the right order. Give me letters or give me death and I'll do all the math you like. So effectively, the approach that makes sense to me is to do everything with formulas, which I have no trouble with at all.

I can see a point to following a Tumblr in the way I'd follow someone on Twitter or a blog, it's just that I only have so many hours in a day, y'know?

[wethrowknives.livejournal.com]

I'll be completely honest, I stopped reading once I got to Pi's rival xD Math is not my friend.

texts from the TARDIS is a great blog, though

[apple-pathways.livejournal.com]

Math is everybody's friend! There are so many wonderful things you can do with it!

All right, I'll stop now.

Any other high-larious blogs I should be checking out?