Comment on suck it, math nerds

• lemmyman@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Now the engineers and/or scientists are crying

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  • Incandemon@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Scientists maybe, engineering is all about calling things close enough.

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• HopFlop@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You don’t need to, it’s defined. (Lol). If you take a circle with a circumference of 1, then its circumference will be 1… I think I might have lost some braincells reading this.

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  • Kill_John_Lennon@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    He obviously meant to say how do you measure that it’s exactly 1m, even when still in a straight line. Exactly being the key word here.

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    • hesdeadjim@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But is the circumference of the outer circle or inner circle 1m? The wire has a nonzero width.

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• Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t have to measure it. I stick under glass and define it as the standard which all other measurements are derived from.

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• bstix@feddit.dk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I will be measuring it in meters. One. There you go.

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  • MxM111@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ok, you got another source of water - physicists.

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• ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Plancks

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  • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Exactly. Use a laser measure to cut a plank, then use that for reference!

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• RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Laser Measure.

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