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Ha! Seeing the headline, I was going to say that this is basically the intro to Street Fighting Mathematics. Reading it, I thought I was just having deja vu w
by taeric 4y ago
Ha! Seeing the headline, I was going to say that this is basically the intro to Street Fighting Mathematics. Reading it, I thought I was just having deja vu with how similar the treatment was. Fun book.
I always think of dimensional reduction when I see these headlines, which is sadly very unrelated.
- btrettel 4y ago> I always think of dimensional reduction when I see these headlines, which is sadly very unrelated. Actually, the two are related. The Buckingham pi theorem of dimensional analysis guarantees the reduction of the number of variables ("dimension" in a different sense) in many instances. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckingham_%CF%80_theorem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckingham_%CF%80_theorem This fact is frequently used in experiments in some areas of physics to reduce the number of tests.
- taeric 4y agoFair. I meant they aren't related more in how this page is using dimensional analysis. Specifically, manually.