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by abecedarius 1093 days ago
Note there's an existing notation which I've mostly seen in lower-class settings like high-school textbooks: r <angle-sign> theta, for the complex number r e^(i theta). Optionally leave out the r.

So you have that "most beautiful formula in all of mathematics":

<angle-sign> tau = 1

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> <angle-sign> tau = 1

Who knew that if you go around in a circle you get back where you started?

And here it is in Unicode glory:

∠τ = 1

Thanks, I should've figured there'd be a character.