{"id":3999,"date":"2011-06-30T23:38:29","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T22:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=3999"},"modified":"2011-06-30T23:38:29","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T22:38:29","slug":"%cf%80-is-wrong-long-live-%e1%83%a2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/%cf%80-is-wrong-long-live-%e1%83%a2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u03c0 is wrong, long live \u10e2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/myklroventine\/2332789392\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2368\/2332789392_6376129e6c_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/myklroventine\/2332789392\/\">Happy Pi Day (to the 36th digit)!<\/a><br \/>\nOriginally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/myklroventine\/\">Mykl Roventine<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>? is often given an almost mythical status, so I found it very refreshing when I was made aware of the <a href=\"http:\/\/tauday.com\/\">? movement<\/a> that argue that ? = 2? is a much more natural constant.<\/p>\n<p>There are lots of good arguments in favour (do follow the link above), and I&#8217;m definitely a convert.<\/p>\n<p>However, as Stewart Russell pointed out to me on Facebook, physicists already have other uses for ?, so perhaps a better symbol could be chosen.<\/p>\n<p>I would propose the Georgian letter ? (pronounced <i>tari<\/i>), which doesn&#8217;t seem to have any uses in maths or physics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Pi Day (to the 36th digit)! Originally uploaded by Mykl Roventine ? is often given an almost mythical status, so I found it very refreshing when I was made aware of the ? movement that argue that ? = 2? is a much more natural constant. There are lots of good arguments in favour (do follow the link above), and I&#8217;m definitely a convert. However, as Stewart Russell pointed out to me on Facebook, physicists already have other uses for ?, so perhaps a better symbol [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}