Comment on Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug

Professorozone@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• zaphod@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I just use the pi from my calculator or numpy/matlab.

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• Droechai@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’ve seen some blueprints who use 3.5. I guess it’s close enough but definitely not too small

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  • Professorozone@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Strange. If you’re going to use a decimal point, why not the right one?

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    • Droechai@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You are correct, I used the wrong one for my region but according to Swedish Wikipedia (bad source) the US and UK uses a . If that is incorrect I’m happy to be corrected!

      sv.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimaltecken

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      • Professorozone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        LOL. That’s not what I meant. Unfortunately it is what I said.

        What I should have said is, if you are going to use a number after a decimal point (or comma in Europe) then why not use the right number. My bad.

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• BrazenSigilos@ttrpg.network ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Electrician over here is killing the buzz

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  • Professorozone@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Electrical engineer. I’m nowhere near as useful as an electrician.

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