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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[–] 38 points 1 year ago (1 child)

38 digits of pie gives youv an error of less then a hydrogen atom in the circumference of the known universe.

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/news/how-many-decimals-of-pi-do-we-really-need/

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    From the article for anyone who cares, NASA uses 15 digits (3.141592653589793) because at Voyagers current distance from earth (~48 billion kilometers) that would give you an accuracy of less than half an inch.

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