Nice Hard Hats, Useless Decimals

Nice Hard Hats, Useless Decimals
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The eternal battle between theoretical and practical engineering! Yellow Hat Guy is clearly the fresh-faced engineer who learned all those fancy significant figures in school, while Blue Hat Guy represents the grizzled veteran who knows that in construction, nobody's measuring anything to the millionth decimal place. Why calculate the tensile strength to 15 decimal places when the contractor is just going to eyeball it anyway? In the real world, "close enough" isn't just acceptable—it's the industry standard!

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