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Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug (lemmy.world)
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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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[–] 1 point 1 year ago

There is no way of producing pi as a number. There aren't enough atoms in the visible universe to write out pi in an 8 bit font. There aren't enough atoms to write out pi in binary with atoms representing ones and empty space representing zeros

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