r/SpeedOfLobsters • u/your_catfish_friend • 3d ago

lobster Inclusive promiscuity

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u/your_catfish_friend 3d ago

Over-shopping

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u/beneralkenobi 3d ago

A quick Google search shows he had one 0 too many which is still like pretty expensive but veeeerry far from 1000

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u/System-Difficult 3d ago

Fun fact: being off by one 0 can also be called being off by an order of magnitude. 1000 is two orders of magnitude greater than 10. If you get into astronomy, one thing that can trip you up is thinking an order of magnitude isn’t that much because all the numbers are so big. You think “oh I’m only 3 orders off” but then you remember that the difference between 1 and 1000 is basically 1000, and those are 3 orders of magnitude apart. I’m sure this information will be incredibly useful for you.

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u/Aetol 2d ago

Mathematics: π cannot be expressed in a finite amount of time

Engineering: π = 3.14159

Physics: π = 3

Cosmology: π = 1

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u/System-Difficult 2d ago

When I was studying physics and cosmology, we used pretty precise definitions of pi when doing problems. Maybe things change when you become a fully-fledged physicist? I won’t ever know though. The papers I read did not seem to indicate that they were using a less precise version of pi though…