Pi is now 5 due to inflation
Having Pi equal five definitely does not help the world go round.
To be Devil’s Advocate:
Given that the rest written in Comic Sans, it may be an early elementary school exercise, aimed at teaching kids to do multiplications. In this case, it’s tolerable and/or defensible to find a simplification for pi.That said, making pi equal to 3 would have been more accurate for that…
Unless the kid is even slightly above average and finds the idea that pi equaling 5 confusing.
Heh nice try but we don’t write textbooks or exams for the outliers.
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That’s a dumb way of teaching and you are a dumb devils advocate for saying it. Go to H E double hockey sticks.
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That’s how you know math is OP when you can calculate volumes in parallel worlds where circles don’t even looks like circles
Ah, Manhattan. Where pi = 4, and circles are diamonds.
Bringing new meaning to the phrase “assume cows are spherical”
“Assume a spherical cow, which for our purposes can be approximated as a cube.”
They’re just rounding up from “3.”
And not that pussy rounding up where you go up by only 1, oh no, we’re rounding up 2 baby.
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Damn inflation is everywhere now, even the transcendentals :'(
With π=5 maths break down completely. If π=5, then e^(5i) = -1, meaning -1 = cos(5) + i * sin(5), or -1 ≈ 0.284 - 0.959 i
I think you’re overthinking it. The first thing you’re told when you learn algebra is that a letter represents a number and you can say “let a equal (number), b equal (number)…” so you can let pi equal whatever you want for the purposes of one simple problem.
But the question is saying to find the volume of a cylinder. Which its clearly wrong.
Well, if we want to be pedantic, they never said that h is the height and r is the radius of the base circle. They could be just random numbers.
Also, since we never calculate with all the digits of pi, it is not any less weird to round to the nearest 5 and say that it’s 5, than to the nearest 0.01 and saying it’s 3.14. It just has a higher amount of rounding error.
Why are we upset by rounding to the nearest 5 for elementary schoolers when we round to 10 m/s/s for gravity in collegiate physics classes anyway?
It’s not even a bad thing to do for quick mental calculations, if you know that you will overshoot. Multiplying by 5 is easy.
You’re talking about variables. But, pi isn’t a variable, it is a constant number. This would be more akin to saying “let 7 = 9”.
Well I suppose for example rounding to the nearest integer is a method of implying “let 1.8 = 2”, no? Not too outlandish, I don’t think.
I think it’s actually a very interesting question. Pi does not equal 5 in our universe, but perhaps we can think of a meaningful universe where it does? Perhaps some mathematicians/physicists can chime in?
Teaching them to to obey dumb instructions from incompetent bosses.
Very useful skill.Assume the earth is a flat disc . . .
I’ve moved on to a no earth society.
π = 5 for very small values of r.
“One! Two! FIVE!” “Three, Sire!” “THREE!”
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My favorite is when doing Order of Magnitude estimations, you are supposed to let pi = 1
Ah, Indiana math.
That just means the curvature of spacetime is negative.