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There’s that old joke that computer scientists think any numbers within a power of two are equal, physicists think any numbers within a power of 10 are equal, a
by timeagain 3y ago
There’s that old joke that computer scientists think any numbers within a power of two are equal, physicists think any numbers within a power of 10 are equal, and mathematicians only distinguish between finite numbers and infinity.
Edit: and engineers are as precise as they are paid to be.
- edu 3y agoAnd cows are spherical!
- pvaldes 3y agoAt some point of its lives. Yes. Is an universal true. Then the zygote starts splitting.
- munificent 3y agoFor software engineers, the only numbers are 0, 1, and infinity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_one_infinity_rule https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_one_infinity_rule
- groby_b 3y agobetween finite numbers and infinities. Plural, please, the discerning mathematician keeps a stable of infinities ;)
- Gibbon1 3y agoHaving proved the contribution of these second and third order terms are between plus 10 and 20% over the range of interest we will multiply by a constant 1.15