Re:One quantum transition makes light at 21 cm
by omegacombinator on Thursday April 24, 2025 @01:57PM
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Ah, so the answer to life, the universe, and everything was actually 42/2 …
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Re:One quantum transition makes light at 21 cm
by simiones on Thursday April 24, 2025 @02:04PM
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Is this going to be τ vs π all over again?
Re:One quantum transition makes light at 21 cm
by o11c on Thursday April 24, 2025 @02:55PM
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I recently did a bit of programming exploration using tau exclusively instead of pi (and `sintau` instead of the new `sinpi` function etc.)
In almost every aspect this was far simpler, but there was the curious case of the constant `M_2_SQRTPI = 2 / sqrt(π)`. Even after looking up what weird formula that constant is used in, it wasn't at all clear to me where would be the most sensible place to put the constant.