# Pi has enemies. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 28, 2011, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pi-has-enemies/587125 "2011-06-28T11:11:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pi-has-enemies/587125/21 "2011-06-28T20:55:54Z")
😃 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pi-has-enemies/587125/22 "2011-06-28T22:35:55Z")
This thread will go on forever and never repeat itself, but seem to be saying only the same 10 things. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pi-has-enemies/587125/23 "2011-06-28T22:43:30Z")
Heresy!!! ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2011, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pi-has-enemies/587125/24 "2011-06-29T01:37:37Z")
Tau would have made trig a LOT EASIER! ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2011, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pi-has-enemies/587125/25 "2011-06-29T03:05:40Z")
Mmmm, I loves me a little tau-pi on the weekends. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2011, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pi-has-enemies/587125/26 "2011-06-29T03:23:07Z")
> [@The\_Second\_Stone](#): > > This thread will go on forever and never repeat itself, but seem to be saying only the same 10 things. Kind of a Mandelbrot set of the entire internet, then. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2011, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pi-has-enemies/587125/27 "2011-06-29T03:25:11Z")
[Into eternity](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=13968027#post13968027) ---
**Author:** ![RadicalPi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/radicalpi/32/9806_2.png) [@RadicalPi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RadicalPi)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2011, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pi-has-enemies/587125/28 "2011-06-29T04:05:00Z")
> [@Autolycus](#): > > At first I was all like pffft, those posers. Pi is awesome and everyone knows it. How dare they besmirch the beautiful boundless pi? But then I read the manifesto. Like Paul of Tarsus inventing the slide rule, the scales fell off my eyes. I knew then and there that Tau is the one true trig constant. Yup. That is exactly what happened to me about a year ago, last tau day. ---
**Author:** ![Indian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@Indian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indian)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2011, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pi-has-enemies/587125/29 "2011-06-29T05:11:55Z")
> [@\*\*\*\*RadicalPi\*\*\*\*](#): > > Yup. That is exactly what happened to me about a year ago, last tau day. Why did you turn radical from a simple one? ---
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pi-has-enemies/587125/30 "2012-12-17T18:34:18Z")
Decided to resurrect this thread instead of starting a new one. The guys over at Numberphile just released a video, [Tau vs Pi Smackdown](http://youtu.be/ZPv1UV0rD8U)! I think the scoring was incredibly biased in favor of π but what can you do? e[sup]iτ[/sup] = 0! ---
**Author:** ![user\_hostile](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/user_hostile/32/474_2.png) [@user\_hostile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/user_hostile)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pi-has-enemies/587125/31 "2012-12-17T19:16:09Z")
I’m a Pi-sces. Anyone here a Tau-rus? ---
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pi-has-enemies/587125/32 "2012-12-17T20:49:33Z")
> [@user\_hostile](#): > > I’m a Pi-sces. > > Anyone here a Tau-rus? No, but I am a Scor-pi-o. ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pi-has-enemies/587125/33 "2012-12-19T14:35:41Z")
Well, that makes sense. But now I can’t help thinking that, after sending all those interstellar radio messages using Pi in some way or another to show how smart we are, extraterrestrial civilizations will think of us as knuckle dragging oafs. ---
**Author:** ![hammos1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ba8739/32.png) [@hammos1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hammos1)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pi-has-enemies/587125/34 "2012-12-19T15:56:10Z")
> [@Ale](#): > > But now I can’t help thinking that, after sending all those interstellar radio messages using Pi in some way or another to show how smart we are, extraterrestrial civilizations will think of us as knuckle dragging oafs. It’s OK, we transmitted it in binary. They’ll just think it’s a bit shift error. ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pi-has-enemies/587125/35 "2012-12-20T21:02:18Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > This entire topic is irrational. Not the whole thing. Tau is divisible by 2. Obviously. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pi-has-enemies/587125/36 "2012-12-20T23:24:38Z")
Now we have a transcendental zombie thread. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pi-has-enemies/587125/37 "2012-12-20T23:57:10Z")
Pi must be eradicated. For the Greater Good. ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2012, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pi-has-enemies/587125/38 "2012-12-21T03:31:23Z")
> [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > Pi must be eradicated. For the Greater Good. Yeah. Let’s eat it. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2012, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pi-has-enemies/587125/39 "2012-12-21T06:08:35Z")
Pi also has friends. ---
**Author:** ![Indian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@Indian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indian)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2012, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pi-has-enemies/587125/40 "2012-12-21T06:34:03Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Pi also has friends. Life of pi must be interesting. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pi-has-enemies/587125.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pi-has-enemies/587125.md?page=3)