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Meme of two women fighting while a man smokes from a pipe in the background.

The women fighting are labeled "mathematicians defining pi" and "engineers just using 3 because it's within tolerance"

The man smoking is labeled "astrophysicists" and the pipe is labeled "pi = 1"

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[–] justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

As an Astrophysicist, I have never seen anybody use pi=1, you just leave the character, it's anyway better to read, is not like you do any calculations by hand anyway. More common is c=hbar=kB=1, but that is not an approximate, is a gauge in another unit system. Also... Astronomy is not astrophysics...

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

As an astrophysicist, can you read me my horoscope? I'm a scorpion

[–] justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 weeks ago

Sure, give it to me, I can read it for you.

[–] Gustephan@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

"is not like you do calculations by hand anyway"

... get off my lawn, whippersnapper.