{"id":189,"date":"2007-10-29T20:04:37","date_gmt":"2007-10-30T03:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/2007\/10\/29\/five-percent-rules\/"},"modified":"2007-10-29T20:04:37","modified_gmt":"2007-10-30T03:04:37","slug":"five-percent-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/2007\/10\/five-percent-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Five percent rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many things in life are simpler when you only need to be within 5%:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pi is pretty much 3<\/li>\n<li>Water weighs pretty much 8 pounds a gallon<\/li>\n<li>A quart is pretty much a liter (and a gallon, 4 liters)<\/li>\n<li>A year has pretty much 360 days, and pretty much 31 million seconds<\/li>\n<li>The speed of light is pretty much 300,000 km\/s, which is pretty much one foot\/nanosecond<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of course, there&#8217;s even more things that get more convenient when you have 10% or 20% to work with&#8230; -m<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many things in life are simpler when you only need to be within 5%: Pi is pretty much 3 Water weighs pretty much 8 pounds a gallon A quart is pretty much a liter (and a gallon, 4 liters) A year has pretty much 360 days, and pretty much 31 million seconds The speed of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[28,3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everythingismiscellaneous","category-patternalia","category-standards"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8eo8l-33","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}