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That's Close Enough!

Chemistry Lab-life Science

8 months ago 20.2K views 0 shares

That's Close Enough!

Every chemistry student knows that feeling when your titration jumps from "almost there" to "way past the endpoint" in a single drop! The perfect shade of pink? A fantasy. The reality? A beaker of what looks like fruit punch. The universal lab experience of telling yourself "close enough" when your careful experiment suddenly goes nuclear. Hey, significant figures were invented for a reason, right?

TIL That Siri Is An Engineer

Engineering Math Tech

9 months ago 20.5K views 0 shares

TIL That Siri Is An Engineer

The classic engineering approximation in its natural habitat! Dividing 253,125 by 253,117 gives us 1.00003... but why bother with those pesky decimals when it's "close enough" to 1? Engineers everywhere are nodding in silent approval while mathematicians clutch their pearls. This is precisely why bridges have safety factors—because somewhere, an engineer is saying "eh, π is basically 3" and moving on with their day.