Pi Is Pi (Unless You're An Engineer)

Pi Is Pi (Unless You're An Engineer)
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The professional pi-fight we never knew we needed! Engineers round pi to 3 because who has time for decimal places when there's a bridge to build? Physicists hedge with "depends" because in some alternate universe, pi might actually be exactly 3 (looking at you, Indiana legislature of 1897). Meanwhile, mathematicians just scream "PI" and defenestrate themselves rather than suffer such numerical blasphemy. The mathematical constant π = 3.14159... deserves better than this approximation violence!

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