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The simplest way to get the volume of a sphere or any other solid 3d object under a certain size is to fill a bucket of water to the brim, put the object in unt
by suifbwish 7y ago
The simplest way to get the volume of a sphere or any other solid 3d object under a certain size is to fill a bucket of water to the brim, put the object in until it is completely submerged, take it out, then measure how much water is now missing. Obviously only works with smaller objects.
- commandlinefan 7y agoBut you’d never get an exact measurement that way, since pi is irrational.
- bmm6o 7y agoThe precision of the instruments is a much bigger obstacle than the representation of the value. You would be just as uncertain that the unit cube has volume 1.000000...
- anonsivalley652 7y agoExperimentation can be an important tool in gathering data & error estimations to build and test a hypothesis. Reasoning is another way. There's no One True Way™ to solve a 3D geometry problem if the resulting hypothesis is demonstrably correct.