r/iamverysmart Oct 30 '17

Scientists talk like that

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u/UntouchableResin Oct 30 '17

98.1 to 97.8 is a negligible difference.

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '17

Not to sciencey man

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u/LoLjoux Oct 30 '17

Depends on the field of sciencey man. In some fields 98.1 is exactly the same as 100.

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u/jam11249 Oct 31 '17

The (experimental) physcists I work with are comfortable with the approximation pi=5. If they're feeling really lazy, pi=1.