Comment on Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug

SARGE@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  10 digits gets the diameter of the earth to within an inch.

  Put another way, 10 digits means that your error will be caused by your imprecise model of the Earth’s shape, rather than imprecision in the value of pi.

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• Zkuld@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  And just two digits introduces less error than your terrible model

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  • Test_Tickles@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Wow, what do you have against models? I mean, I know that the trope is that they aren’t very smart, but the same trope applies to firemen, so why pick on models?

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    • Zkuld@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      old man voice this must be that ragebait thing the youngsters are always talking about

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    • TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Firemen are way hotter

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      • Hule@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Well, when they’re burning…

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• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  out of curiosity… does that first fact account for the continued expansion of the universe?

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  • SARGE@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It works at the current 93 billion light years of observable universe (46ish in every direction)

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• Gustephan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The real comment mvp. You deserve every positive vote my post got

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• alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Thank you O’Brian, I hope you have finally done the DTR with Basir

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• Abrinoxus@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Earth is shaped like potatoe pi accounts for that??

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