Pure mathematicians having existential crises when they can't find a perfectly rigorous proof, while cosmologists are popping champagne because their calculations were only off by a factor of 10. Welcome to the sliding scale of scientific precision! In math, being 0.0001% wrong means total failure. In cosmology, being within the same galaxy cluster counts as a bullseye. Next time your calculator gives you 3.14159 for π, just round it to 3 and tell everyone you're "thinking cosmologically."
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