@St_Rev @NewYorker Not a tau fan?
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Replying to @TrivialGravitas
@TrivialGravitas@NewYorker It's the Dvorak keyboard of math.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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Replying to @TrivialGravitas
@TrivialGravitas Value of changing over is vanishingly small. Cost of changing over is astronomical. People want to use it, they can.1 reply 1 retweet 3 likes -
Replying to @St_Rev
@St_Rev@TrivialGravitas I’m not sure I’d agree with that. The value of using it is small, but the cost of changing is also small. …2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @daniel_houck
@St_Rev@TrivialGravitas … Plus the value is over time. If we use the new system for long enough switching is worth it for even tiny values.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @daniel_houck
@daniel_houck@TrivialGravitas Cost of changing is less small than the cost of going standard -> Dvorak.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @St_Rev
@daniel_houck@TrivialGravitas inasmuch as keyboards are one specific piece of muscle memory, while pi is scattered through...1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @St_Rev
@daniel_houck@TrivialGravitas ...thousands of formulas, and millions of books and papers.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @St_Rev
@daniel_houck@TrivialGravitas On the other side of the scale, changing is--seriously--worthless. There are as many pi/2s as 2pis out there.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@daniel_houck @TrivialGravitas All you'd be doing is changing {pi/2, pi, 2pi} to {tau/4, tau/2, tau}. Completely useless.
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