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Meme of two women fighting while a man smokes from a pipe in the background.

The women fighting are labeled "mathematicians defining pi" and "engineers just using 3 because it's within tolerance"

The man smoking is labeled "astrophysicists" and the pipe is labeled "pi = 1"

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[–] Mad_Punda@feddit.org 15 points 2 days ago (13 children)

And then you’re using C++ and they scold you for including cmath for just M_PI because it increases compilation times.

[–] Telemachus93@slrpnk.net 20 points 2 days ago (10 children)

We're talking about engineers here! We're using MATLAB or Python if we're programming at all.

[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 34 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Your not writing regular python code, your writing a special subset of python intended for engineers and scientists called "bad python code"

[–] fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 days ago

As a comp sci that interacts a lot with engineers, I feel this in my soul.

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