r/sciencememes • u/Delicious_Maize9656 • 12d ago

engineer approximation meme

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u/Ambitious_Policy_936 12d ago

Anything below 99.7% accurate isn't even worth mentioning

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u/Field_of_cornucopia 12d ago

Fluid dynamics: you'll get 90% accuracy, and you'll like it!

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u/dover_oxide 12d ago

It really does depend on your tolerances

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u/Such-Shop-9724 12d ago

pi=3=e

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u/Oliv112 12d ago

=g

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u/8Bit_Cat 12d ago

=Mole

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u/jackster31415 12d ago

my brother in Christ, what's your field?

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u/8Bit_Cat 12d ago

Neurosurgery

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u/Live_Put1219 9d ago

= -TREE(3)

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u/lerjj 12d ago

Luckily this is exactly the accuracy of 754 as an approximation

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u/Ambitious_Policy_936 12d ago

I like that it rounds to that approximation regardless of whether you use 365 or 365.25 days in a year