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University of Göttingen alum here, in our astrophysics courses we used to make jokes about how generous the approximations were. Comparing x^2 with x^5, take lo
by captainmuon 6y ago
University of Göttingen alum here, in our astrophysics courses we used to make jokes about how generous the approximations were. Comparing x^2 with x^5, take log on both sides, 2 ~= 5, so x^2 = x^5 ... Appropriate xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2205/ https://xkcd.com/2205/
- Delk 6y agoSomething makes me want to continue that xkcd strip with a CS approximation with something about all of those being just constant factors.
- wolfram74 6y agoOne of my favorite derivations in stat mech is for the Chandrasekhar limit where you start by assuming pi=1 because you say stars are cubes.