Big Pickles

This opinion piece was written at the U of U a few years ago, so maybe some of you Utah people have seen it. But it was new to me.

Basically, the author argues that pi should be the ratio of radius to circumference, rather than diameter, because that would make all the formulas look prettier. I have to agree that, once you get beyond elementary geometry, it's all radius, all the time. So why is this famous number based on diameter?

Labels: math