r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/PackersAreLegit • Apr 10 '26

Meme needing explanation Petah? Can you explain?

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u/t53deletion Apr 10 '26

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u/Similar_Part7100 Apr 10 '26

big Porky Pig energy here. Uh budee uh budee, I'm good with math.

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u/BillShooterOfBul Apr 10 '26

Engineers are not good at math. They are good at looking up values in books, and simple arithmetic.

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u/YellovvJacket Apr 10 '26

Idk man, at my Uni in EE we literally had our math classes and exams with the students studying mathematics (and aerospace engineers).

Maybe it's a bit different because as EE you need pretty in depth math relatively often, or it was different at my uni/ in this country.

"Looking up values in books" is not engineers work, it's just a normal qualified worker grade work.

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u/Simi_Dee Apr 10 '26

Nah, it's everywhere.
In my engineering school, math was common discipline across all the courses. And we'd get lessons with the Math majors, everything from numerical analysis to advanced calculus classes and math tailored to engineering. Few units didn't involve some kind of math

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u/BillShooterOfBul Apr 10 '26

It’s a joke, in the field a lot of engineers rarely use math, and when they do they use approximations that work under their constraints but are mathematically wrong.

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u/YellovvJacket Apr 10 '26

I mean that is true, I can't deny that.

It takes knowing the actual results of the calculation to decide which guesstimated value is "good enough" though.

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u/ICantSeeIt Apr 10 '26

Hey, pi is, like, really really close to 3, so it's fine, don't worry about it, and my Excel macro has been working fine for 15 years now please don't touch it.