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Add the value twopi to RIO.Prelude #185
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It is more natural to have a symbol for the value 2·π than π. Think about it: A circle is defined from a radius (the circle is all the points having distance radius) and so it it would be nice to have a symbol denoting the value of the circumference of a circle with unit radius (1). At least such a symbol would be more natural than having a symbol for half the circumference (π). Pi is wrong and should be removed from mathematics, that's my opinion.
Suggestion: Since RIO introduces a completely new Prelude, we have a good opportunity to introduce the value twopi :: Floating a => a. That's a value I've been missing.
PS. I just started programming with rio and I love it!
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snoyberg commentedon Jun 11, 2019
Fairly lukewarm on it. We don't typically attempt to add brand new things to
riowithout a strong motivation. A debate like pi-vs-tau doesn't seem to fit in there. That said, I don't have a lot of experience in doing this kind of work in Haskell and don't feel very strongly about this.