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Spherical Bastard (europe.pub)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/science_memes@mander.xyz
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[–] 8 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

It's just a variation of the old physics joke about a Spherical cow.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago

    Not really? The joke about the spherical cow is about reducing a problem to a hyper-simplified version to make computation easier at the cost of accuracy.

    The spherical bastard is more a joke about mathematical projections, since a sphere looks the same from any angle.

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