The difficult part of engineering is figuring out what number you have to round then multiply by 1.2 or 0.8
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empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year agoNumbers like that should have been why you kept going in mech E.
Once you get past the educational stage, every one of those calculations becomes “OK now round to the closest whole number that gives you the larger factor of safety and move on”
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 year ago
deranger@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Eh, it’s just fundamentally ugly to me and that really turned me off. Rounding doesn’t help, that’s like turning the lights off for sex. Engineering is still very cool to me, and I have huge respect for those who do it, but I’d never have made it. It’s physics but even further perverted by reality. Math was beautiful to me because of how “pure” it was. Just straight logic, divorced from the messy world we live in. Tidy coefficients and elegant derivations.
applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
deranger@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Not knocking people’s choices, it just wasn’t for me. If math in reality isn’t math in education, it’s even better that I left.
I’ll still contend math is much more elegant than physics or engineering, though. There’s no e^I*pi + 1 = 0 equivalent for either.