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Spoiler alert:
"Tau" is 2pi.
That was anticlimactic, I have to say.
Yes, 2pi is arguably even more fundamental than pi. In fact, some of my friends and I once celebrated "2pi day" one summer, in view of that fact. That said, writing that long of a manifesto on how "pi is wrong" (or, if you prefer, "tau/2 is wrong") is way overdoing it.
However, on behalf of my left-handed friends, I claim that -i is the true square root of -1.
The map x+iy -> x-iy is an isomorphism. So i and -i are mathematically indistinguishable.
Yes, that was precisely the joke. :-)