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-up149arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up146arrow-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-up2·10 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-down1·10 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.
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.