Twoafros@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 8 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-down13file-text
arrow-up150arrow-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 · 8 months agomessage-square42fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareMoobythegoldensocklinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·8 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-up3·8 months agoYou’re not making any estimation within 1/10 like that. 1/2 is as close as you can reasonably get.
minus-squareMoobythegoldensocklinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·8 months agoOk, well I didn’t come up with the system so please write to the heads of science to get it changed.
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-28 months agoYou jest, but this seriously is not standard practice in academia or professionally.
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.