• Etterra@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    And people wonder why an American politician wanted to change π to be 3. Gawd our country sucks.

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      1 month ago

      π=3

      Source: Mahajan, S. (2014). The art of insight in science and engineering: Mastering complexity. The MIT Press. p. 18.

      That page is also a goldmine for of numbers you can use for back of the envelope maths or trolling professionals of various kinds. Are you working with chemists? N_A=6 * 10^23 mol^-1 What about physicists then? c=3 * 10^8 m/s.