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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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[–] Bluewing@lemmy.world 0 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

As a retired mechanical engineer, the joke is that we don't really remember the value of Pi, but we think it's somewhere around 3. But maybe we should use 4 just to be safe.

In any case, I have to remember 3.14 because one of my Daughters was born on Pi Day. Which, according her, is the second most important day of the year, just right behind Christmas Day, when she was growing up. So when she got into high school that meant that we had to bring enough pie to be served in each of her math classes on that day. (Oddly enough she prefers cheese cake over pie on her Birthday).

Now I'm not saying being born on Pi Day influenced her life any, but she has a PhD in Mech Engineering.

[–] Hugin@lemmy.world 0 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Good news for her. Cheese cake is a pie not a cake.

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

This made my day.

Solidifies my preference for pie over cake

[–] feddup@feddit.uk 0 points 5 hours ago

Theres a YouTube video where the presenter demonstrates DOOM running (or not) with varying values of Pi that's quite interesting: Non Euclidean DOOM

[–] Gustephan@lemmy.world 0 points 8 hours ago

You sound like an involved and caring father. Rock on, dude