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Tau: Is two pi better than one?

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A group of mathematicians are campaigning for the constant, pi, to be replaced by something they are calling tau.

Marcus Du Sautoy, mathematics professor at the University of Oxford, explains why people will continue to be "obsessed" with pi.


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