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[โ€“] easily3667@lemmus.org 33 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I assumed the number is not significant, figure it's just supposed to mock the idea that physicists don't know what tolerances are.

[โ€“] Ziglin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

An experimental physicist should know as far as I know meanwhile a real (theoretical) physicist would probably not even touch numbers that have those scary decimals.