Comment on Ok, some nerd please explain the switches on this IRL calculator app

• ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah that certainly worked

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  • idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What does 22/7 get you under “A?”

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    • ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Setting it to A and only punching the numbers divides 0.22/7 and gives the expected result of 0.03.

      Actually dividing 22/7 gives us some tasty π

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• juliebean@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  did you just suggest a ratio as an irrational number?

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  • tyler@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Well he doesn’t have a pi button.

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    • ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I wish I did but I ate a slice

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  • Excrubulent@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I noticed that too, but they are coprime with one another and they aren’t divisible by 10, so they would definitely create repeating digits. Could’ve used 1/3 for the same effect though.

    I just tried and it’s a pi approximation, which makes more sense.

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