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I'm still not sure what the argument is that you're making, or who you are accusing, and of what. Minute details tend only to be relevant in niche fields. Isn't the study of minute details what makes them niche fields? When you compute the area of a circle, though you may only use a few digits of pi, surely you can appreciate how those that need to precisely calculate the area of a circle might use more digits than you do. The fact that pi is irrational, that neither of you are using the "real" value of pi, doesn't make what either of you are doing "bullshit" though.


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