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Actually Lidl (or the mother company Schwarz Group to be more precise) tried to implement SAP and could not get it to work. So after burning more than 500 Mio. Euro they oficially quit with SAP in 2018 and decided to invest a lot in their own systems, both infrastructure and software. So in 2021 they bought XM Cyber, a cloud security specialist company from Israel and guess who is a big client of this company that is now owned by the Schwarz Group: SAP


Our mechanics professor in university told us that Pi squared is ten and 6xPi=20. He said "engineers do not care for the fourth digit after the dot. If you want some number very precisely calculated just hire a mathematician instead because they are cheaper per hour"


Multiple people have brought this up and I just don't get it. When would you ever use Pi squared for anything, and if you'd never use it, who cares what its value is?

The only thing I could come up with is marking out an area by rolling a wheel some number of times to measure each edge.

Long ago, I memorized the square root of pi precisely because it seemed like the least useful number I could think of. (I was frustrated by something. Never mind.) But pi squared seems like it's pretty much the same in terms of usefulness.

If you said pi is the square root of 10, then I could see the value. Maybe that is what is being implied?


By reading the name alone I can't help but think of the xkcd related to standards.


Can someone please throw in that Windows XP kernel code that has been leaked lately. I'm wondering how many WannaCry vulnerabilities are out there.


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