490
Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug
(lemmy.world)
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"
I've seen some blueprints who use 3.5. I guess it's close enough but definitely not too small
Strange. If you're going to use a decimal point, why not the right one?
You are correct, I used the wrong one for my region but according to Swedish Wikipedia (bad source) the US and UK uses a . If that is incorrect I'm happy to be corrected!
https://sv.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimaltecken
LOL. That's not what I meant. Unfortunately it is what I said.
What I should have said is, if you are going to use a number after a decimal point (or comma in Europe) then why not use the right number. My bad.
A very good question, I think it was in an old DIY wood crafts book for older kids. I'm gonna dig through my book boxes to see if I find it :) Any excuse to go through them!
Edit: I'm autistic so it's not uncommon to read stuff to literally, so don't worry