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Heretic! From the book of Linus [0], chapter one:

> Tabs are 8 characters, and thus indentations are also 8 characters. There are heretic movements that try to make indentations 4 (or even 2!) characters deep, and that is akin to trying to define the value of PI to be 3.

[0] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/coding-style....




Math trivia: there are cases on which it is sensible, in sufficiently advanced mathematics, to define pi as 3 (or whatever other number).

I don't use tabs, but if I'd say that the biggest advantage of using tabs is that everybody can configure their own editor to make them as large as they wish.


Cursed April fools update: tabs are now π spaces wide.


of course PI isn't 3, it's 1 (from a distance)


Only if you're a cosmologist.[0]

0: http://xkcd.com/2205/




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