{"id":237,"date":"2011-03-14T05:26:59","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T09:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/?p=237"},"modified":"2011-03-14T05:26:59","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T09:26:59","slug":"reminder-tau-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/2011\/03\/reminder-tau-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Reminder: Tau Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Given the present date, I feel it&#8217;s the perfect time to remind everyone that, yes, while Pi is a wonderful thing and an interesting curiosity to be thought upon, perhaps there&#8217;s an even better way. Since reading the Tau manifesto a year or two ago, I&#8217;ve come to be quite convinced that it&#8217;s just .. well, right. It&#8217;s a deep down feeling &#8211; so I&#8217;m going to link anyone that happens across this and ask that if you are willing to do me a favour today, make that favour be to read this fantastic bit of mathemeaningful sensism: <a title=\"give 'er a turn!\" href=\"http:\/\/tauday.com\/\">The Tau Manifesto<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Right all the way &#8217;round.<\/p>\n<h6>Sudden thought: I know very little about the historical stuff about Pi. I should pick up the Princeton Companion to Mathematics sometime and scan across it; I bet it&#8217;s interesting. Maybe there&#8217;s something in there that explains why Tau isn&#8217;t such a good idea after all.<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given the present date, I feel it&#8217;s the perfect time to remind everyone that, yes, while Pi is a wonderful thing and an interesting curiosity to be thought upon, perhaps there&#8217;s an even better way. Since reading the Tau manifesto a year or two ago, I&#8217;ve come to be quite convinced that it&#8217;s just .. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240,"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions\/240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}