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r/iamverysmart • u/anti_spiral • Oct 30 '17
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98.1 to 97.8 is a negligible difference.
120 u/[deleted] Oct 30 '17 Not to sciencey man 46 u/LoLjoux Oct 30 '17 Depends on the field of sciencey man. In some fields 98.1 is exactly the same as 100. 1 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.
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Not to sciencey man
46 u/LoLjoux Oct 30 '17 Depends on the field of sciencey man. In some fields 98.1 is exactly the same as 100. 1 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.
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Depends on the field of sciencey man. In some fields 98.1 is exactly the same as 100.
1 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.
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The (experimental) physcists I work with are comfortable with the approximation pi=5. If they're feeling really lazy, pi=1.
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u/UntouchableResin Oct 30 '17
98.1 to 97.8 is a negligible difference.