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Unbeknownst to many, June 28 is a very important date on the calendar. Aside from being my wedding anniversary!, it is Tau Day. What is Tau Day? You might well ask, and the answer is that it's Pi Day's unfairly ignored stepsibling, according to its main booster, theoretical physicist and all-around geek Michael Hartl (
http://www.michaelhartl.com/about). Hartl and other Tau supporters contend that using a circle's radius instead of its diameter, as Pi does, is much more natural, and therefore the obvious choice:
http://tauday.com/tau-manifesto
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