Comment on Fucking math...

• idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s not wrong, it’s close enough. And the point it works with more numbers and more type of calculation. Let’s calculate 4% of 1243. That’s the same as 1243% of 4, right, much easier to calculate by simply changing the 2 numbers… While my method is the same, by simply rounding everything.

  And in engineering you always multiply/divide your results by a 1.5 or 1.25 safety factor, depending on situation. So you don’t have to calculate exact results, just close enough. E.g. G is always 10m/s2. π is only 3.14, the other digits doesn’t matter.

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  • shrugs@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s the stupidest shit I have heard today. You should feel ashamed if you really are an engineer

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    • Vegiforous@piefed.ca ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That's how engineering is. In civil you can round π=5 for a lot of calculations. In astrophysics I've seen e=π=10

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      • shrugs@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Rounding once may be okay but rounding multiple times and that errors add up. Astrophysics?! If im working with wood, i don’t care measuring to 0.1 mm and it might be okay in astrophysics to use 10 for pi, but that doesn’t make guessing your math correct in general.

        Maybe we are doing things differently here in germany.

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