Similarly, in the hospital as I was recovering from peritonitis, the nurse was skeptical of my 1-10 pain rating of pi.
I’d be skeptical too. There’s no way your pain sensitivity is finely calibrated enough to give 3.14 as an answer, never mind 3.1415..… ;)
Did I claim error bars? No, I didn’t! pi is not intrinsically more precise a number than 1, 2, or 3!
There’s no way your pain sensitivity is finely calibrated enough to give 1.00 as an answer, let alone 1.0000.… ;)
I’d be skeptical too. There’s no way your pain sensitivity is finely calibrated enough to give 3.14 as an answer, never mind 3.1415..… ;)
Did I claim error bars? No, I didn’t! pi is not intrinsically more precise a number than 1, 2, or 3!
There’s no way your pain sensitivity is finely calibrated enough to give 1.00 as an answer, let alone 1.0000.… ;)