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CameronDev@programming.dev 2 months agoYup, Australian, and thats primary+secondary school here. Im only harping on the test/exam thing because i vaguely recall having some tests were π was set to a specific value like 3.1, and that if you used the calculator π, all your answers ended slightly off. It wasnt anything to do with π being a variable, just the you had better read the exam question carefully and that blindly typing the equation into the calculator would not always be the answer.
I think i have typed π more times today than the last 15 years since I left highschool :D
bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Ah gotcha. It’s been a while but as I recall, on tests without calculators we were usually told to use 3.14 and round our answers to the nearest hundredth, though some teachers were more flexible if you were pretty close but slightly off in the decimals, while tests with calculators were pretty stringent on being precise. And yeah, I remember pretty early to ensure the decimal lengths because I tended to use the calculator’s length of π instead of hundredths or thousandths or whatever and it botched my answers after rounding off.
I feel ya there, though I’m starting up school again in the fall so this is getting me somewhat excited for math classes again.