• Rusty@lemmy.ca
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    4 days ago

    It’s just a variation of the old physics joke about a Spherical cow.

    • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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      3 days ago

      Not really? The joke about the spherical cow is about reducing a problem to a hyper-simplified version to make computation easier at the cost of accuracy.

      The spherical bastard is more a joke about mathematical projections, since a sphere looks the same from any angle.