P3D Re: About engineers....

[roberts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (John W Roberts)]

>Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 06:53:50 -0700
>From: Duncan Waldron <J.Waldron@xxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: P3D Re: About engineers....

>Mathematician's definition of pi:  "a constant value describing the
>relationship between the circumference and diameter of a circle" 

>Physicist's definition of pi:  "3.141 +/- 0.0005"

>Engineer's definition of pi:  "about 3..."

Here a mathematician would be more likely to give the infinite expansion
(Taylor(?) polynomial or whatever), a physicist would say 3.14159265358979...,
and an engineer would most likely use 3.14 +/- 1%.

John R

p.s. Is "Dilbert" known in the UK / Europe?


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