Pi and tau cookie cutters
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Cookie cutters to explain the difference between pi and tau. Also to celebrate pi or tau day.
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This a very good educational tool to explain why tau is twice as good as pi. As explained at considerable length here:
https://tauday.com/tau-manifesto or if you do not like to read:
I use them to make people chose between pi (half) and tau (full) cookies, and they immediately see what each represents, and that tau is better. Since you get a bigger cookie.
Print in a suitable somewhat foodsafe filament, I chose uncolored PLA. Since contact is limited, I am not that worried, but I would avoid anything filled with glasfiber, carbon, bright colors and consider if you recently used such a filament in your printer.
After printing put one drip of glue in the hole of the press part, and put in the knob:
Wait for the glue to cure. Then make a batch of cutout cookie dough, something that hold its shape very well, and start making cookies:
Enjoy the cookies:
And now you too can spread the word about the one true circle constant:
