• shrugs@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    That’s the stupidest shit I have heard today. You should feel ashamed if you really are an engineer

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      20 hours ago

      That’s how engineering is. In civil you can round π=5 for a lot of calculations. In astrophysics I’ve seen e=π=10

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        12 hours ago

        Rounding once may be okay but rounding multiple times and that errors add up. Astrophysics?! If im working with wood, i don’t care measuring to 0.1 mm and it might be okay in astrophysics to use 10 for pi, but that doesn’t make guessing your math correct in general.

        Maybe we are doing things differently here in germany.