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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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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

And just two digits introduces less error than your average terrible model

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Wow, what do you have against models? I mean, I know that the trope is that they aren't very smart, but the same trope applies to firemen, so why pick on models?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago

old man voice this must be that ragebait thing the youngsters are always talking about

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Well, when they're burning..