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"Veritasium" (YT) - "The Big Misconception About Electricity" ?

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snarkysparky:
https://lpsa.swarthmore.edu/BackGround/phasor/phasor.html#:~:text=A%20sinusoidal%20signal%20f(t,a%20rotational%20velocity%20of%20%CF%89.

adx:
=SIN(3.1415926)
5.35898E-08

adx:
And the cesium clock.

TimFox:

--- Quote from: adx on April 13, 2022, 03:32:54 pm ---=SIN(3.1415926)
5.35898E-08

--- End quote ---

In a computed-tomography application, one of our software engineers used a value of pi defined to 7 decimal places instead of the compiler's function PI().  Unfortunately, he was off in the last decimal place.  Computed tomography requires going around a circle exactly once.  It was interesting how much error this small difference in pi caused to the resulting reconstructed image.

hamster_nz:

--- Quote from: TimFox on April 13, 2022, 04:14:00 pm ---
--- Quote from: adx on April 13, 2022, 03:32:54 pm ---=SIN(3.1415926)
5.35898E-08

--- End quote ---

In a computed-tomography application, one of our software engineers used a value of pi defined to 7 decimal places instead of the compiler's function PI().  Unfortunately, he was off in the last decimal place.  Computed tomography requires going around a circle exactly once.  It was interesting how much error this small difference in pi caused to the resulting reconstructed image.

--- End quote ---

Me: Goes away and quietly adds the following to the build pipeline:

--- Code: ---#!/bin/bash

count=`find src -type f -name '*.[ch]' | xargs grep -l -e "3[.]14" -e "1[.]57" | wc -l`
if [ "$count" != 0 ]
then
  echo "Found a PI-like constant in these files:"
  find src -type f -name '*.[ch]' | xargs grep -l -e "3[.]14" -e "1[.]57"
  exit 3
else
  exit 0
fi

--- End code ---

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