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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Pi is roughly 5.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Never, in any engineering field, have I EVER seen anyone simplify pi to 5. For that matter, I have never seen anyone simplify to 3. It is always 3.14. I feel like pi simplification is a weird meme that people think engineers do but is never practiced anywhere.

It's like if there was a meme about chefs saying they always replace eggs with grapefruit. No they don't, and it's nonsense to think they do.

[–] mrgoosmoos 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

you've never seen anybody simplify it to 3 when doing head calcs without a phone nearby?

it doesn't happen often, in fact I've seen it once. in a decade.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

The only time you should be doing head calcs as an engineer is to double check that you have a reasonable answer with the actual calcs on your actual calculator.

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