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moron4hire on Aug 11, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: “Stop reverse engineering our code”

On the other hand, if you had said "Pi is 3", you would have been accurate, but not very precise. If you said "Pi is "Pi is 3.14", you would have been so precise that you could have gotten to the moon and back.

mikeash on Aug 11, 2015 [–]

Damn, and here I thought I needed to build a gigantic rocket.

moron4hire on Aug 11, 2015 | [–]

My statement was accurate, just lacking in precision on the details :P

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