@Twoafros to No Stupid Questions • 8 months agoMath question: how do we get an irrational number pi from the ratio of circumference and the diameter of a circle?message-square42arrow-up152arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up149arrow-down1message-squareMath question: how do we get an irrational number pi from the ratio of circumference and the diameter of a circle?@Twoafros to No Stupid Questions • 8 months agomessage-square42file-text
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•8 months agoIt is fixed. Your ruler shows 1.0, and then you estimate 1 digit past to 1.00 +/- 0.01.
minus-square@SpaceNoodlelink3•8 months agoYou’re not making any estimation within 1/10 like that. 1/2 is as close as you can reasonably get.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink-1•8 months agoOk, well I didn’t come up with the system so please write to the heads of science to get it changed.
minus-square@SpaceNoodlelink3•edit-28 months agoYou jest, but this seriously is not standard practice in academia or professionally.
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.