Packet 7: Bonus 19
For 10 points each, answer the following about the Tau Manifesto:
[10e] The Tau Manifesto supports using the constant tau in place of this other constant, which is half of tau. The area of a circle is given by this constant times the radius squared.
ANSWER: pi
[10m] The Tau Manifesto claims that this mathematician’s namesake identity is more elegantly stated as e to the i tau equals 1, rather than its standard form of e to the i pi plus 1 equals zero.
ANSWER: Leonhard Euler [accept Euler’s identity]
[10h] The manifesto also claims that this function, which includes the square root of 2 pi times variance in its formula, would be more elegantly expressed using tau. The Dirac delta function is the limiting case of this function as variance goes to zero.
ANSWER: normal distribution [or Gaussian distribution or Gaussian function; prompt on bell curve]
<Math — June Yin> | SHOW-ME Four Packet 7
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 18.82 | 100% | 88% | 0% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ASCA (Ava, Sean, Chris, and Aiden) | Fremd Larpers | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Copilot, give me a witty team name for an online quizbowl tournament | Bombardino Rizzbaino and the Tung Tung Tung Trio | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Quaker Oats | (not so) Evil Empire | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| ccny potato salad | washed and braindead!!! | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| son toliver | POA | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rube Goldberg XIX | 11/20/2025 | ✓ | 11 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| SHOW-ME Four Nationwide HS | 11/20/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 80% | 0% |
| SPOOKY IX | 11/20/2025 | ✓ | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |