• 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.