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Meme of two women fighting while a man smokes from a pipe in the background.

The women fighting are labeled "mathematicians defining pi" and "engineers just using 3 because it's within tolerance"

The man smoking is labeled "astrophysicists" and the pipe is labeled "pi = 1"

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[-] [email protected] 147 points 19 hours ago

38 digits of pi can get the circumference of the visible universe to within a single hydrogen atom.

10 digits gets the diameter of the earth to within an inch.

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 18 hours ago

out of curiosity... does that first fact account for the continued expansion of the universe?

[-] [email protected] 27 points 18 hours ago

It works at the current 93 billion light years of observable universe (46ish in every direction)

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