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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

An error margin of less than 5% (even better, biased in a known direction) is more than good enough for plenty of use cases.

An error margin of more than 25% on the other hand, is seldom acceptable.

[–] Console_Modder@sh.itjust.works 16 points 13 hours ago

Nah, it's fine. Trust me I use pi=4 in every calculation I do that uses pi and I haven't ever run into any issues at all

(I'm not that type of engineer, I never do anything with pi)

[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 5 points 13 hours ago

It's called safety factor