| ▲ | verzali 3 hours ago | |||||||||||||
I remember discovering that pi x 10^7 is very close to the number of seconds in a year while at uni. One of my tutors was convinced this had to be more than coincidence, but I always figured it was just chance and a nice but sometimes useful shortcut... | ||||||||||||||
| ▲ | pansa2 42 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||
I always liked the fact that 10! (10 factorial) is exactly the number of seconds in six weeks. | ||||||||||||||
| ▲ | tzs 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||
You might be able to send someone down an amusing (to observers) rabbit hole of wrongness by telling them it is not exact because Earth’s orbit is not perfectly circular. | ||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | simondotau an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||
It cannot be anything but coincidence. While 365.25 days in a year is physics, a day consisting of 86,400 seconds is an entirely arbitrary human construct. | ||||||||||||||
| ▲ | Hnrobert42 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||
Get enough numbers, accept wide error bars, and some of them are going to overlap. | ||||||||||||||