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Record W2766443760 · doi:10.1063/pt.3.3748

A reminder of the powers of <i>π</i>

2017· article· en· W2766443760 on OpenAlexaff
Louis J. Dubé

Bibliographic record

VenuePhysics Today · 2017
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldDecision Sciences
TopicScientific Measurement and Uncertainty Evaluation
Canadian institutionsUniversité Laval
Fundersnot available
KeywordsValue (mathematics)SentenceStatement (logic)MathematicsSimple (philosophy)Code (set theory)PhysicsMathematical physicsCombinatoricsPhilosophyComputer scienceStatisticsSet (abstract data type)EpistemologyLinguistics

Abstract

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In a two-sentence Letter to the Editor of Physical Review, Friedrich Lenz made the noteworthy observation11. F. Lenz, Phys. Rev. 82, 554 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.82.554.2 that the value of the ratio mp/me could be expressed to all significant figures of the time by 6π5. That was in 1951, and remarkably, years later the observation holds true to good approximation. His note is perhaps also the shortest article ever published in Physical Review (27 words, 1 number, 1 equation, and 1 reference).Its modern version could read as follows: The most exact value at present22. P. J. Mohr, D. B. Newell, B. N. Taylor, Rev. Mod. Phys. 88, 035009 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.88.035009 for the ratio of proton to electron mass is mp/me = 1836.152 673 89(17). Despite years of experimental improvements, that number still coincides, to good approximation, with the simple, unambiguous representation 6π5.With the 66th birthday of Lenz’s intriguing observation, it seems fitting to make his result better known to the community. This reminder should not be construed as trumpery—a showy but worthless statement—but as a comfort that some facts remain true with the passing of time.ReferencesSection:ChooseTop of pageReferences <<1. F. Lenz, Phys. Rev. 82, 554 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.82.554.2, Google ScholarCrossref2. P. J. Mohr, D. B. Newell, B. N. Taylor, Rev. Mod. Phys. 88, 035009 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.88.035009, Google ScholarCrossref, ISI© 2017 American Institute of Physics.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.313
Threshold uncertainty score0.310

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.333
GPT teacher head0.439
Teacher spread0.106 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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