LucasSloan comments on Open Thread: March 2010, part 2 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: zero_call 14 March 2010 12:27:18AM 1 point [-]

It's a mistake everyone makes every now and then - seeing pi/n and thinking it's 2pi/n.

What? Like who, 6th graders?

Comment author: LucasSloan 14 March 2010 01:42:27AM 3 points [-]

I find that unfair. I have made the mistake Sniffnoy describes many times, all of them after I was in 6th grade.

Comment author: wedrifid 14 March 2010 02:13:17AM 2 points [-]

Easy solution. Pi is half a circle. Pie is the whole one. Then there is a smooth transition from grade 3 to university.

Comment author: thomblake 15 April 2010 01:51:22PM 1 point [-]

Pi is half a circle. Pie is the whole one.

I've been looking for a good thing to call 2*Pi - this might cut it.

Comment author: wedrifid 16 April 2010 06:55:21AM * 0 points [-]

this might cut it.

Nice one! ;)