The Value of pi may represent a single point of failure
The value of pi may represent a single point of failure. There is more to Cyber Security than stolen emails, loss of Personal Identification information, and common programming weaknesses.
Not on anyone's radar screen, the value of pi (3.1415926535897932384626433...) represents a single point of failure and a potential cascade trigger in Great Circle Navigation, Precision Location Bombing Systems, Geographic Information Systems, and Air Traffic Control Systems where a high degree of accuracy and precision is called for.
Tampering with data including the value of this constant could wreak havoc on the operation of these systems. Not only that, detecting such an intrusion appears to be outside the range of Cyber Security specialists whose training and sense of situation awareness are directed at expected network effects, known weaknesses, and bad actors and not at numerical analysis and finite word effects.
Chemical Engineering Specialist at Firma-Terra
8 年Pi is used in some series expressions as well.
Team Management
8 年From another perspective yet also valid : pi is a constant 1. used in a lot of systems calculations 2. it is an i r r a t i o n a l number susceptible :-) of approximations and consequently error margins. The most brilliant, exceptional, well-intended and so on strategy can spectacularly fail in the absence of the proper established communication channels [yes, infrastructure as a decisively phase of a strategic planning]] in order to put all the people involved in a specific 'calculation' on the same page - to all use the same conventionally/finite chosen value of pi, let's say and by proceeding so to optimum minimize the error margin derived from here.