To: Anon, From HRH Sunbutt.

by Snow

From HRH Eternally Young, RE: Letter 34

Author's Note:

Letter 34: Here.

To my faithful student, Twilight Sparkle,

While I certainly don't begrudge you your hobbies, Twilight, I do feel that perhaps ones a bit more socially involved or immediately useful than increasingly minute digits of Pi may be wise. Sweetie Belle had the right of it, in that it is alright to round Pi, and even in a greater scope, that it is alright to neglect to account for every detail when only the general shape is needed for the end result.

Another example might be temperature. For instance, in chemistry variance of a single tenth of a degree can be explosive, or ruin work if not accounted for, whereas when making coffee - technically a chemical process, though a trivial one - is perfectly happy at a range of temperatures. The context is different and so to is the difference in what you must worry over, and how much.

Your loving mentor,
Princess Celestia

PS. Twilight, did you not already learn the dangers of trying too hard to figure out Pie?

Comments

[Emtu]

Some people would argue that there is, in fact, a "perfect" temperature for coffee.

[Hotel_Chicken]

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And now Twilight will try to find it despite being a Tea Mare. Good going Celestia, you made Twilight obsessed with finding the perfect Coffee temperature now.

[Sir Budginton]

I think I read somewhere that even NASA only use pi to the 10th decimal place or something when doing their calculations. At that point, even when talking about sending spacecraft to the edge of the solar system, you’ll be less than a metre off.

[dzamie]

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That sounds about right - if you go to the 20th place, you'll get within a meter of a calculation on the entire Milky Way's diameter

[Pseudonymous]

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At 64 it's a Planck distance on a disc the size of the observable universe

[Frankie2]

: Silly Celly. The Pie can never be figured out.

[MrChampion12]

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That's the point. Trying too hard to figure something out that's impossible to figure out would be extremely frustrating

[Teikan]

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no