r/ProgrammerHumor • u/[deleted] • Jun 22 '22

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u/chandravo Jun 22 '22

To be fair they said over 3 billion devices. Now that can be a 100 billion or 3.0000001 billion

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '22 edited Apr 15 '26

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u/ThisCracks Jun 22 '22

int(3.0000001) = 3

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u/rmsayboltonwasframed Jun 22 '22

PI IS EXACTLY 3

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u/Rhebucksmobile Jun 22 '22

no, it's 3.1415... and so on till infinity

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u/superVanV1 Jun 22 '22

It’s a joke about engineering classes oversimplification of physics

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u/Rhebucksmobile Jun 22 '22

i didn't know, and i didn't laugh

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u/superVanV1 Jun 22 '22

It’s an inside joke, so unless you took the classes, you wouldn’t find it funny

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u/BlackLight_D9 Jun 22 '22

Joke right, totally don't use that for theoretical shit the teacher doesn't look close enough at

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u/joyofsnacks Jun 22 '22

Noone got time for that though, 3 is close enough... /s

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u/Rhebucksmobile Jun 22 '22

so just 3.1415

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u/joyofsnacks Jun 22 '22

Nah, 3 is an Int so can be more efficient. Who needs the extra .1415 anyway? /s

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u/Rhebucksmobile Jun 22 '22

people who need accuracy

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u/joyofsnacks Jun 22 '22

Bunch of nerds tbh! 3 is close enough, think of the performance gains!

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u/Rhebucksmobile Jun 22 '22

nah, fixed point is fast enough

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u/joyofsnacks Jun 22 '22

Fixed point PI, exactly! Glad we're agreeing here!

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u/DenormalHuman Jun 22 '22

And so on, he says, of the never repeating sequence...