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Always Multiply Your Estimates by π (2013)

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268 points behnamoh | 2 comments | 27 Sep 21 04:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.418s | source
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mattbillenstein ◴[27 Sep 21 05:37 UTC] No.28667416[source]▶
Ha, I always said 3, I never knew this existed...

You always see rookies make the mistake of just adding up the individual time of all the tasks - and engineers are famously bad at making horribly under-scoped estimates - so projects estimated this way have typically went over time by a factor of three or so as I've come to learn...

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telotortium ◴[27 Sep 21 07:31 UTC] No.28668041[source]▶
3 is the Biblical value for pi, so that's okay.
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1. adamrezich ◴[27 Sep 21 16:18 UTC] No.28672614[source]▶
this is not exactly true; here's some additional context for the curious:

https://www.purplemath.com/modules/bibleval.htm

https://answersingenesis.org/contradictions-in-the-bible/as-...

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2. telotortium ◴[27 Sep 21 16:40 UTC] No.28672898[source]▶
That's very interesting - thanks!