Meme of two women fighting while a man smokes from a pipe in the background.
The women fighting are labeled “mathematicians defining pi” and “engineers just using 3 because it’s within tolerance”
The man smoking is labeled “astrophysicists” and the pipe is labeled “pi = 1”
SARGE@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
38 digits of pi can get the circumference of the visible universe to within a single hydrogen atom.
10 digits gets the diameter of the earth to within an inch.
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exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
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.
Zkuld@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And just two digits introduces less error than your terrible model
Test_Tickles@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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?
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
out of curiosity… does that first fact account for the continued expansion of the universe?
SARGE@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
It works at the current 93 billion light years of observable universe (46ish in every direction)
Gustephan@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The real comment mvp. You deserve every positive vote my post got
alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Thank you O’Brian, I hope you have finally done the DTR with Basir
Abrinoxus@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Earth is shaped like potatoe pi accounts for that??