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  • …if they’re above average, I think they’ll figure out the explicitly defined variable. I think the instructor is trying to make sure this problem doesn’t require a calculator and figured defining pi as 5 makes it clear that you can treat it as a whole number. 3 would be more accurate and just as easy, but meh idk that this is that great of a blunder.




  • Because the Amish disdain for technology is relative. Since smartphones came along, payphones seem quaint in comparison, opening them up for their technological “Amish phase.” Much like how Amish have no issues using bicycles or buggies since the car came along. Give it a few years and before long you’ll see Amish with CRT TVs scrambling for VCRs and NES copies of Super Mario










  • NucleusAdumbens@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldRamadan
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    10 months ago

    I’m showing my bias, I hope not to offend: how does someone understanding/expert in enough math and science to become an astronaut still believe that the magic sky man cares what direction he bows in during prayer or when he eats? If it’s cultural significance I can understand that, but otherwise I just can’t comprehend how you can have such a dissonance between empiric study/career and fundamentalist religious belief