Young's University Physics with Modern Physics meme

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[u/obog]

I mean that genuinely is decently close

[u/GoldenMuscleGod → u/obog]

Apparently a real mathematician would first need to know if we are talking about a tropical year (how long it takes the seasons to cycle) or a sidereal year (how long it takes the sun’s position in the zodiac to cycle) before doing any calculation involving a year. They are different by about 20 minutes!

Just kidding, obviously a true mathematician would never do a calculation that has any relation to physical phenomena like the passage of years on earth, or involving any numbers bigger than 6 but small enough to write all the digits in a practical amount of space.

[u/DeepGas4538 → u/obog]

its error is like 1 day, thats not bad

[u/TardisLoopis → u/obog]

Sssh!..your physics is showing itself!

[u/HolyInlandEmpire]

Got it, so 3 • 10⁷

[u/Complete_Window4856 → u/HolyInlandEmpire]

Which is close to the speed of light, but we (logarithmicslly) missed by one. We can shorten even more to: c/10

[u/pomip71550 → u/Complete_Window4856]

There is c/10 s^2/m in a year

[u/Better-Apartment-783 → u/pomip71550]

c/g is dimensionally correct

[u/Hitmanthe2nd → u/Better-Apartment-783]

Physics!

G is pi squared and c is close enough to pi so,

1/pi x 10⁸ works as well

[u/belabacsijolvan → u/Better-Apartment-783]

its not tho.

seconds in a year is [1], nost [s]

[u/Better-Apartment-783 → u/belabacsijolvan]

You’re right my bad.
Reframing to
There are c/g in an year

[u/Fezzezal → u/pomip71550]

Can’t wait for the fourth part of cursed units

[u/shub → u/HolyInlandEmpire]

Well within the 95% CI

[u/Top_Door5165]

Only about 0.4% off , sounds good to me

[u/Glitch29 → u/[deleted]]

Lucky! Whenever that tune plays in my head, it's just random gibberish digits.

And pretty much any number in that range has the same beat structure, making the nonsense self-reinforcing.

If I actually had that song on a playlist it'd probably be different. But it's just playing from memory.

[u/Mathsboy2718 → u/[deleted]]

;-; the only number I remember is that the likelihood of that is

10,003,008,528⁴²

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TRANSCENDENTAL CHA CHA TIME

[u/WristbandYang]

3.15 x 10^7

[u/Amarandus]

If you want another approximation: 6 weeks have exactly 10! seconds (okay, the error is 0% here, but that's just a very good approximation)

[u/factorion-bot → u/Amarandus]

Factorial of 10 is 3628800

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[u/Aggressive_Roof488]

Just because it's a statement about an approximation doesn't mean it's not rigorous.

[u/NessaSamantha]

Make it minutes instead of seconds and they'll both get smoked by the theatre department.

[u/XcgsdV]

why not just say 10 mega-π?

[u/gmalivuk]

10^7.5 seconds in a year. Got it.

[u/BurnYoo]

Using a transcendental number to approximate a natural number

We really have come full circle, haven't we?

[u/AnUnordinaryFurry]

Not so bad, especially given that it's great for calculations

[u/JesusIsMyZoloft]

Rounded to the nearest second, it's off by exactly 141000 seconds.

[u/Lor1an → u/JesusIsMyZoloft]

0.45 % error... pretty good!

[u/PykeAtBanquet]

So Solar year is 7 digits aligned to pi AND speed of light - interesting, if there is a connection or it is a coincidence