It’s probably trying to teach kids algebra without using decimals. But it does look messed up. Everyone knows at least 3.14, except kids I guess
I got my daughter to memorize 50 digits of pi when she was 11 or 12 by betting her $50 she couldn’t.
I’ll remember that, but she is four now…
Americans are more fat so they need bigger Pi to keep geometry in touch with reality.
Ah yes. I have heard about that.
American Pi.
Bye, bye, miss American PI.
Maybe Vader some day later, but now it’s just about prime.
Assigning a value of 5 to pi, although ludicrous IRL, doesn’t affect the problem. Plug the values into the equation and it will still give an answer that’s correct in context.
Do cylinders even exist in metrics where pi = 5 ?
Technically no, because pi equals pi not 5. But you can approximate its value as 3 or 5 or whatever you want, knowing it’s not exact and that your result will only be an approximation. I mean you could also ask how long light takes to reach us from Alpha Centauri if the speed of light is 1000 mph. It’s not, but if you make that a condition of the problem you can do the calculation just fine.
I think that reason would make it “Technically Yes”, since False (pi = 5) implies False (cylinders exist) is (vacuously) True (“absurd premise”).
For the benefit of doubt, maybe the test is from an alternate dimension that doesn’t use euclidean space.
I’ve been there, I think, but it was really difficult to triangulate my location and confirm
That’s because you were supposed to rhombusulate, not triangulate.
