It's Pi Time - Neatorama

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What time is it? It's about Pi/2 past 2Pi/3. You don't need to know the geometric definition of this mathematical constant to know what time it is since it's not a digital display.

Link - Via John Gushue

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Oh God, I actually really want this clock and really don't want this clock at the same time!

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?? Who cares about ?? Circumference divided by *diameter*? A circle is defined by its *radius*, not its diameter!
Behold ? (tau), at least TWICE as good as ?: http://tauday.com/

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Hm. This blog doesn't seem to like unicode... :'(

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A tau clock makes more sense.

The positions of the hours would still be labeled 1 through 12, but they would have

?
----
12

suffixed to each one.

Tau (?) is (proposed to be) 2? (2 * pi).

http://tauday.com/

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Can somebody explain how this makes sense?

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@imtoostupid-- It's trigonometry; points on the unit circle. (It's a way to measure angles in radians, which use pi, instead of in degrees.)

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Thanks seltaeb. I couldn't have said it better myself - or said it at all for that matter.

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There may be some explanation as to how this works, but this clock on first sight (the only important sight) doesn't work at all. It seems like these guys thought ?=6? Because when ?=?, ? is not 6, 2? is not 12, and 3?/2 is certainly not 9. It's fucking 4.71238898038469.

PS- All of these equations would work if ?=6. What the fuck.

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(?=Pi)

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