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by timeagain 844 days ago
There’s that old joke that computer scientists think any numbers within a power of two are equal, physicists think any numbers within a power of 10 are equal, and mathematicians only distinguish between finite numbers and infinity.

Edit: and engineers are as precise as they are paid to be.

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For software engineers, the only numbers are 0, 1, and infinity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_one_infinity_rule

And cows are spherical!
At some point of its lives. Yes. Is an universal true. Then the zygote starts splitting.
Having proved the contribution of these second and third order terms are between plus 10 and 20% over the range of interest we will multiply by a constant 1.15
between finite numbers and infinities. Plural, please, the discerning mathematician keeps a stable of infinities ;)