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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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[–] Zkuld@lemmy.world 0 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

And just two digits introduces less error than your average terrible model

[–] Test_Tickles@lemmy.world 0 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Wow, what do you have against models? I mean, I know that the trope is that they aren't very smart, but the same trope applies to firemen, so why pick on models?

[–] Zkuld@lemmy.world 0 points 5 hours ago

old man voice this must be that ragebait thing the youngsters are always talking about