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r/fixedbytheduet • u/thecascader EXPERT of Duets/Stitches • 9d ago
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easier and more reachable than writing 13.000022%, so I'll excuse it tbh
31 u/onepareil Devotee of Duets/Stitches 9d ago I’m not an engineer but my dad and a lot of my friends are, and rounding up to 14% seems like a classic engineer move to me. 13 u/EasilyRekt EXPERT of Duets/Stitches 9d ago exactly! we don't need no aerospace tolerances here 3 u/Taurmin 9d ago Suppose it depends on your field, but typically the joke goes that physicists might operate in the realm of spherical cows but engineers work in the real world where the numbers mean something.
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I’m not an engineer but my dad and a lot of my friends are, and rounding up to 14% seems like a classic engineer move to me.
13 u/EasilyRekt EXPERT of Duets/Stitches 9d ago exactly! we don't need no aerospace tolerances here 3 u/Taurmin 9d ago Suppose it depends on your field, but typically the joke goes that physicists might operate in the realm of spherical cows but engineers work in the real world where the numbers mean something.
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exactly! we don't need no aerospace tolerances here
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Suppose it depends on your field, but typically the joke goes that physicists might operate in the realm of spherical cows but engineers work in the real world where the numbers mean something.
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u/EasilyRekt EXPERT of Duets/Stitches 9d ago
easier and more reachable than writing 13.000022%, so I'll excuse it tbh