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A joke in approximating numbers raised to irrational powers

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104 points nomemory | 4 comments | 18 Nov 24 16:41 UTC | HN request time: 1.295s | source
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sevensor ◴[19 Nov 24 18:13 UTC] No.42186490[source]▶

    sin x = x
Half the problems in EE become trivial once you learn this. Sometimes the universe does a bad job of complying with the approximation though.
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1. m463 ◴[19 Nov 24 19:25 UTC] No.42187116[source]▶
pi = 3.2

(that is an assignment statement)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_pi_bill

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2. wmwmwm ◴[19 Nov 24 22:56 UTC] No.42188960[source]▶
My aero engineering friend from university winds me up every time I see him saying that pi = 22/7 - I finally stopped getting angry, checked and it’s pretty good! I’m still glad he didn’t decide to design planes after he graduated though!
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3. defrost ◴[19 Nov 24 23:01 UTC] No.42188996[source]▶
That was a near miss for the industry, real aerospace nerds use 355/113 ...
4. nomemory ◴[20 Nov 24 01:51 UTC] No.42190101[source]▶
Fun fact, in the book Life Of Pi, the kid stays exactly 227 days on the boat with the tiger.