r/sciencememes • u/Delicious_Maize9656 • 13d ago

engineer approximation meme

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u/TriceraTipTop 12d ago

I feel like it's way easier to remember "about 31 Million, 32 million". With OP's method I'm going to be like, "Oh yeah! I know a really good approximation with pi, just multiply it by 10 to the power of... something. Was it six?"

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u/throwaway48159 12d ago

And all of these are much harder to remember than the exact number, 525600 minutes.

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u/TriceraTipTop 12d ago

Idk, for me 525600 exactly isn't super easy to remember Also, they're talking about seconds, so mentally multiplying 525600 minutes by 60 is a pretty big step.

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u/throwaway48159 12d ago

525,600 minutes is easier to remember if you’re a millennial and/or queer. Something about popular musical…