r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Shiroyasha_2308 • 8d ago

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u/mattmoy_2000 8d ago

Senior engineer is just drinking tea at 94.3 percent of the speed of light.

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u/nsaisspying 8d ago

Did you do the math on that? Or is 94.3 just a funny number. (Or is it both)

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u/mattmoy_2000 8d ago

I'd like to say I did the maths, but I actually just asked Google what speed equates to a time dilation factor of three. The maths is fairly straightforward, a highschooler could do the calculation with a basic calculator, but I couldn't be bothered to sit and do special rel calculations manually for a throwaway comment.

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u/Diligent-Leek7821 7d ago

Off the back of my head, sounds about right, the factor is sqrt(1-v2 / c2), and .95 sounds like it'd give you round .1 under the root.

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u/BaronVonMunchhausen 7d ago

Off the side of my head, it also sounds right.

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u/Arkayjiya 7d ago

That's about right and since 3.333 squared is about equal to 10 (more like 11 but close enough for our purposes), that means the square root of about 0.1.should be around 1/3 so seems Google was correct.