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jeremyarussell on June 28, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Khan Academy now supports tau

That seems like a bad comparison, writing out multiple digits in place of a single digit should ALWAYS be less efficient.

_ytji on June 28, 2012 [–]

Agree....wouldn't having more language for these things make it MORE efficient? I'm down for a symbol for pi/2 (tau/4)!

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