Twoafros@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 10 months agoMath question: how do we get an irrational number pi from the ratio of circumference and the diameter of a circle?message-squaremessage-square42fedilinkarrow-up153arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up151arrow-down1message-squareMath question: how do we get an irrational number pi from the ratio of circumference and the diameter of a circle?Twoafros@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 10 months agomessage-square42fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·10 months agoIt’s not fixed. Millimeters aren’t 1/100 of a centimeter.
minus-squareMoobythegoldensock@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·10 months agoIt is fixed. Your ruler shows 1.0, and then you estimate 1 digit past to 1.00 +/- 0.01.
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·10 months agoYou’re not making any estimation within 1/10 like that. 1/2 is as close as you can reasonably get.
minus-squareMoobythegoldensock@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·10 months agoOk, well I didn’t come up with the system so please write to the heads of science to get it changed.
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-210 months agoYou jest, but this seriously is not standard practice in academia or professionally.
Whoops, fixed.
It’s not fixed. Millimeters aren’t 1/100 of a centimeter.
It is fixed. Your ruler shows 1.0, and then you estimate 1 digit past to 1.00 +/- 0.01.
You’re not making any estimation within 1/10 like that. 1/2 is as close as you can reasonably get.
Ok, well I didn’t come up with the system so please write to the heads of science to get it changed.
You jest, but this seriously is not standard practice in academia or professionally.