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submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 days ago (2 children)

What's the significance of that number? It's less than 0.1 away from tau, but somehow I doubt that's it...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I can't be arsed to check but I think it's 2 pi which is useful when dealing with sine waves.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago

2 pi is tau, which is what I said it's less than 0.1 away from, but still not equal to.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I assumed the number is not significant, figure it's just supposed to mock the idea that physicists don't know what tolerances are.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

An experimental physicist should know as far as I know meanwhile a real (theoretical) physicist would probably not even touch numbers that have those scary decimals.