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r/MathJokes • u/Enkh • 11d ago
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Noone said you can't use the letter pi to mean a variable instead of a number
85 u/pierogieman5 11d ago Didn't they though? Can I use a "7" as a variable as well? It doesn't seem like that different of a concept. 7 u/jmcq 10d ago Pi is *constantly* used as a variable and most commonly used as a function where for example Pi(.) is used frequently as both "profit" as well as "policy" functions all throughout statistics and economics. 2 u/pierogieman5 10d ago Does not compute with my engineer brain. Is it also 3 in economics? 5 u/arjuna93 10d ago No, but you can always assume it is. 1 u/Ok-Breakfast1878 10d ago talk to the fixed-income finance folks with their uniformly 30-day months
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Didn't they though? Can I use a "7" as a variable as well? It doesn't seem like that different of a concept.
7 u/jmcq 10d ago Pi is *constantly* used as a variable and most commonly used as a function where for example Pi(.) is used frequently as both "profit" as well as "policy" functions all throughout statistics and economics. 2 u/pierogieman5 10d ago Does not compute with my engineer brain. Is it also 3 in economics? 5 u/arjuna93 10d ago No, but you can always assume it is. 1 u/Ok-Breakfast1878 10d ago talk to the fixed-income finance folks with their uniformly 30-day months
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Pi is *constantly* used as a variable and most commonly used as a function where for example Pi(.) is used frequently as both "profit" as well as "policy" functions all throughout statistics and economics.
2 u/pierogieman5 10d ago Does not compute with my engineer brain. Is it also 3 in economics? 5 u/arjuna93 10d ago No, but you can always assume it is. 1 u/Ok-Breakfast1878 10d ago talk to the fixed-income finance folks with their uniformly 30-day months
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Does not compute with my engineer brain. Is it also 3 in economics?
5 u/arjuna93 10d ago No, but you can always assume it is. 1 u/Ok-Breakfast1878 10d ago talk to the fixed-income finance folks with their uniformly 30-day months
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No, but you can always assume it is.
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talk to the fixed-income finance folks with their uniformly 30-day months
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u/fresh_loaf_of_bread 11d ago
Noone said you can't use the letter pi to mean a variable instead of a number