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A comment on Always Multiply Your Estimates by π (2013). Parent comment

Re:Always Multiply Your Estimates by π (2013) by Miiko on Monday September 27, 2021 @02:37AM (#28667738)
That's not a sin graph, though, but 2 semi-circles.
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Re:Always Multiply Your Estimates by π (2013) by OskarS on Monday September 27, 2021 @02:53AM (#28667826)
The arc-length of a sin curve is an elliptic integral, and project time estimation is hard enough without throwing elliptic integrals into the mix!
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