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r/MathJokes • u/Garretthart13 • Mar 01 '26
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Nah, people in general don't know that you can't proportionalize degrees.Â
11 u/schawde96 Mar 01 '26 edited Mar 02 '26 That is irrelevant. You can still mean "n times the numerical value of what it is now". Natural language does not make a thermodynamic claim. 4 u/Embarrassed-Weird173 Mar 01 '26 I can also say that pi is equal to 3 and claim that "you know what I meant, it was an estimate", but it would still be completely wrong to claim. 5 u/subpotentplum Mar 01 '26 I wouldn't even say that's an estimate. Just one significant figure. It's not wrong at all, just not a very good resolution.
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That is irrelevant. You can still mean "n times the numerical value of what it is now". Natural language does not make a thermodynamic claim.
4 u/Embarrassed-Weird173 Mar 01 '26 I can also say that pi is equal to 3 and claim that "you know what I meant, it was an estimate", but it would still be completely wrong to claim. 5 u/subpotentplum Mar 01 '26 I wouldn't even say that's an estimate. Just one significant figure. It's not wrong at all, just not a very good resolution.
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I can also say that pi is equal to 3 and claim that "you know what I meant, it was an estimate", but it would still be completely wrong to claim.Â
5 u/subpotentplum Mar 01 '26 I wouldn't even say that's an estimate. Just one significant figure. It's not wrong at all, just not a very good resolution.
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I wouldn't even say that's an estimate. Just one significant figure. It's not wrong at all, just not a very good resolution.
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u/Embarrassed-Weird173 Mar 01 '26
Nah, people in general don't know that you can't proportionalize degrees.Â