So, I learned in physics class at school in the UK that the value of acceleration due to gravity is a constant called g and that it was 9.81m/s^2. I knew that this value is not a true constant as it is affected by terrain and location. However I didn’t know that it can be so significantly different as to be 9.776 m/s^2 in Kuala Lumpur for example. I’m wondering if a different value is told to children in school that is locally relevant for them? Or do we all use the value I learned?
ITT: People who all apparently remembers what the freaking constant for gravity is down to the decimal.
This is the askscience community, what do you expect? :)
At least the guys in here knows their shit. Impressive.
The first time we used it was 7th or 8th grade and we kept using it from then on. How can you even forget?
You should ask these people how many digits of pi they know. My 100-something isn’t even that impressive.
All of them. 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9.