I’m sure it is, unfortunately there seem to be a big disconnect between learning and understanding. Undergraduate students quickly understand there’s no real value in getting too deep into this stuff and as a result caring about as much as I cared about classic Latin in high school.
Yesterday I was checking some numbers from the Juno’s links and the scientific calculator of my Win10 responded to the 880/749 entry with a 31 decimal places (full display) result: 1.1748998664886515353805073431242
Out of curiosity I turned to MS Excel. Not much luck, it allows max 30 decimal places.
The surprise was that the result of the division in Excel was a mere 14 significant decimal places
1.174899866488650000000000000000
Wikipedia has an article over this Numeric precision in Microsoft Excel - Wikipedia
George
Scott 😕
As Pi is the intermediary between radians and degrees whether it’s 2D or spherical trigonometry, it is embedded in any linear length calculation given an angle.
George
George,
I take it you don't get lost going out and about!
While on navigation, we could discuss "Wrong way Douglas Corrigan." He was quite famous for missing Long Beach California by quite a bit! 😉
His issue wasn't pi but rather phase.
I take it you don't get lost going out and about!
While on navigation, we could discuss "Wrong way Douglas Corrigan." He was quite famous for missing Long Beach California by quite a bit! 😉
His issue wasn't pi but rather phase.
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His nickname was a tongue in cheek. The error was deliberate. There is no way that an almost 180 degrees compass deviation would have been left unnoticed by him even within the first hour of flight, let alone the rest of his flight.
Even without compass guidance at all, he knew his orientation (he took off at 05:15 so he could clearly see where east is). He was determined to do the flight he was been repeatedly denied by the authorities.
Right. He was not in phase with the authorities guide lines. 🙂
George
NASA Perseverance live stream starting in ~17 minutes, enjoy.
Watch NASA’s Perseverance Rover Land on Mars! - YouTube
Mission Control Live: NASA Lands Perseverance Mars Rover (360 video) - YouTube
Watch NASA’s Perseverance Rover Land on Mars! - YouTube
Mission Control Live: NASA Lands Perseverance Mars Rover (360 video) - YouTube
As a minor side note (heh), the live chat scroll on the right is certainly an interesting study in human nature... 😕
As someone who grew up in a time when being a nerd was definitely not cool, the segment a few minutes ago where the young student came on with, "Hello space nerds!" almost brought a tear to my eye. We really have made a bit of progress here & there. 🙂
Yep, the subjective evaluation design team of Golden Ears can be proud of this achievement. Forget the math, listening was key to success.
Do you believe the chances are too slim to even bother, or are you wondering what is the point of looking?
Thanks for clarifying.
Edit: Reading that back, it looks sarcastic, which wasn't my intent. It's just that I realized I don't have a useful response to your question. And by that I don't mean to infer that this mission is useless, as I feel quite the opposite. I think that discovering signs of life for the first time on a world other than our own would be rather interesting to say the very least.
Edit: Reading that back, it looks sarcastic, which wasn't my intent. It's just that I realized I don't have a useful response to your question. And by that I don't mean to infer that this mission is useless, as I feel quite the opposite. I think that discovering signs of life for the first time on a world other than our own would be rather interesting to say the very least.
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