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by alecrn 4110 days ago
I always liked this as well, and in this case, tau is basically that unit. In fact, maybe we could think of tau as being short for "turn".

One full rotation = tau

Half a rotation = 1/2 tau

1/10 a rotation = 1/10 tau

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I especially like that this conversation went full circle and back into tau.