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I remember back in high school physics when we were calculating the volumes of a few stars and my teacher said "Just round out 4\pi/3 to 4". I completely unders
by gunnihinn 11y ago
I remember back in high school physics when we were calculating the volumes of a few stars and my teacher said "Just round out 4\pi/3 to 4". I completely understand why we'd do that -- the error terms in the radius of the star completely drown out that approximation -- but goddammit it still feels wrong. I guess I'm a mathematician and not a physicist for a reason.
- marcosdumay 11y ago:) Physics is full of dirty shortcuts. I dread every time I see somebody using a natural units system.