{"id":5335,"date":"2011-06-28T00:31:30","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T04:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=5335"},"modified":"2011-07-03T01:15:42","modified_gmt":"2011-07-03T05:15:42","slug":"pi-vs-tau-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2011\/06\/28\/pi-vs-tau-limerick\/","title":{"rendered":"Mathematical Cat Fight (Happy Tau Day &#8212; June 28th)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I went to school a zillion years ago, using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2011\/03\/15\/pi-day-humor\/\">Pi<\/a> was a given in math class.  So I was astonished to learn that some mathematicians favor using <a href=\"http:\/\/tauday.com\/\">Tau<\/a> instead. What&#8217;s the difference?  While Pi&#8217;s value is 3.14 plus an endless bunch of post-decimal digits, Tau&#8217;s value is double Pi at 6.28 (plus its own post-decimal digits*.)  And while Pi is celebrated on March 14th, math fans commemorate Tau on June 28th.<\/p>\n<p>I figured that since I&#8217;ve already written <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2011\/03\/15\/pi-day-humor\/\">Pi a limerick ode in its honor<\/a>, Tau deserves the same treatment: <\/p>\n<p>Mathematical Cat Fight (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>It seems Pi has a challenger &#8212; Wow!<br \/>\nThe name of its  rival is Tau!<br \/>\nIts value is twice<br \/>\nThat of Pi &#8212; oh how nice!<br \/>\n&#8220;2 Pi R&#8221; becomes &#8220;Tau R.&#8221; Meow!<\/p>\n<p>Happy Tau Day!<\/p>\n<p>* Edited for clarity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I went to school a zillion years ago, using Pi was a given in math class. So I was astonished to learn that some mathematicians favor using Tau instead. What&#8217;s the difference? While Pi&#8217;s value is 3.14 plus an endless bunch of post-decimal digits, Tau&#8217;s value is double Pi at 6.28 (plus its own [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,39,33,42,58],"tags":[1992,4957,1393,2013,2096,1092,1993,1990,2014],"class_list":["post-5335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrations-poetry","category-education-humor","category-holiday-humor","category-limericks","category-seasons-humor","tag-arithmetic","tag-celebrations-poetry","tag-education-school-humor","tag-june-28th","tag-june-holidays","tag-math-humor","tag-mathematics-poem","tag-pi","tag-tau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5335"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7996,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5335\/revisions\/7996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}