Has the imperial system gone to far?
Has the imperial system gone to far?
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Assigning a value of 5 to pi, although ludicrous IRL, doesn't affect the problem. Plug the values into the equation and it will still give an answer that's correct in context.
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For the benefit of doubt, maybe the test is from an alternate dimension that doesn't use euclidean space.
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I've been there, I think, but it was really difficult to triangulate my location and confirm
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That's because you were supposed to rhombusulate, not triangulate.
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Possible. I mean, electricity could actually be run by ghosts, but there's no need for fanciful explanations when a mundane one is right there.
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If the goal is to avoid calculations with decimal places, why not just leave Pi in the result?
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That would work too.
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I wish they would have used 22/7 for pi and 7 for the radius or height
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Do cylinders even exist in metrics where pi = 5 ?
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Technically no, because pi equals pi not 5. But you can approximate its value as 3 or 5 or whatever you want, knowing it's not exact and that your result will only be an approximation. I mean you could also ask how long light takes to reach us from Alpha Centauri if the speed of light is 1000 mph. It's not, but if you make that a condition of the problem you can do the calculation just fine.
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I think that reason would make it "Technically Yes", since False (pi = 5) implies False (cylinders exist) is (vacuously) True ("absurd premise").
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Yes. The 3d shape existence is not affected by changing pi values
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Cause it's just a (n-1)-dimensional ball extruded along the remaining axis, or do all 3d shapes exist on (nearly) all 3d metrics?
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