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[–] [email protected] 62 points 4 days ago (3 children)

2+2 = 5

…for sufficiently large values of 2

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 days ago

i was in a math class once where a physics major treated a particular variable as one because at csmic scale the value of the variable basically doesn't matter. the math professor both was and wasn't amused

[–] Lemmyoutofhere 11 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Engineer. 2+2=5+/-1

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

I mean as an engineer, this should actually be 2+2=4 +/-1.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

Statistician: 1+1=sqrt(2)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Computer science: 2+2=4 (for integers at least; try this with floating point numbers at your own peril, you absolute fool)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Freshmen engineer: wow floating point numbers are great.

Senior engineer: actually the distribution of floating point errors is mindfuck.

Professional engineer: the mean error for all pairwaise 64 bit floating point operations is smaller than the Planck constant.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

0.1 + 0.2 = 0.30000000000000004

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

comparing floats for exact equality should be illegal, IMO

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

pi*pi = g

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

units don't match, though

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Found the engineer