RobotToaster@mander.xyz to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoTIL that Indiana’s House of Representatives once unanimously passed a bill to make Pi exactly 3.2www.scientificamerican.comexternal-linkmessage-square67linkfedilinkarrow-up1457arrow-down16
arrow-up1451arrow-down1external-linkTIL that Indiana’s House of Representatives once unanimously passed a bill to make Pi exactly 3.2www.scientificamerican.comRobotToaster@mander.xyz to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square67linkfedilink
minus-squareZoteTheMighty@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down6·2 months agoUnironically, NIST basically did this with Planck’s constant and the speed of light.
minus-squarenialv7@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 months agoyou can’t do that to pi because it’s dimensionless
minus-squareCosmicTurtle0 [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months agoI sort of get NIST doing something like this. I think even NASA rounds pi to 8 digits since that gets them within a diameter of a hydrogen atom. The purpose of NIST is not necessarily accuracy but consistency.
Unironically, NIST basically did this with Planck’s constant and the speed of light.
you can’t do that to pi because it’s dimensionless
I sort of get NIST doing something like this. I think even NASA rounds pi to 8 digits since that gets them within a diameter of a hydrogen atom.
The purpose of NIST is not necessarily accuracy but consistency.