Yeah, and what you’re saying makes me think of the phrase “all models are wrong, but some are useful”. As long as you understand the limitations of your methods, it’s less about being exactly right to 100,000,000 decimal places, and more about “will this building stand up?”
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Yeah, and what you’re saying makes me think of the phrase “all models are wrong, but some are useful”. As long as you understand the limitations of your methods, it’s less about being exactly right to 100,000,000 decimal places, and more about “will this building stand up?”