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Comment author: Prismattic 05 December 2011 09:49:29PM 4 points [-]

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..... ;)

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 06 December 2011 06:24:48AM 12 points [-]

Did I claim error bars? No, I didn't! pi is not intrinsically more precise a number than 1, 2, or 3!

Comment author: tgb 06 December 2011 01:38:47AM 8 points [-]

There's no way your pain sensitivity is finely calibrated enough to give 1.00 as an answer, let alone 1.0000.... ;)

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