Sledgehammer to crack a nut

       

    \( y_1=\exp_{\sqrt{2},2}^{~1/2}(x) \) , \( y_2=\exp_{\sqrt{2},4}^{~1/2}(x) \) ,
and the deviation \(D = y_1-y_2\)

Sledgehammer to crack a nut may refer to application of a strong, powerful, complicated formalism to a task that does not worth such an effort.

Sledgehammer to crack a nut may refer to using a very powerful instrument or weapon, applying much more efforts, forces, energy, than necessary.

Sometimes, it still has sense to use a Sledgehammer to crack a nut.
However, the person who does this is supposed to understand what he or she is doing.

Analogies

The Russian expression «из пушки по воробьям» ("shoot sparrows from a cannon"), see the second figure, has similar meaning.

Examples

In order to prove that the two growing half iterates of the exponential to base \(\sqrt{2} \) at the real axis (see figure at right) are not the same , they had been evaluated with hundred decimal digits. In parallel, the appoximation of the deviation had been constructed.
The deviation appeared already in the 24th digit.

In order to implement the Student Distribution with the C++ float routine Student.cin, the coefficients need to be calculated. These coefficients are expressed through the Factorial function. The Editor used the complex double implementation in order to evaluate the real coefficients for the float routine.

In utopia «Tartaria», drunk Vasili Pupkin fires the surface-to-air missile at the balcony with terrorists, making it difficult to identify them.

Warning

Often, the qualification «Sledgehammer to crack a nut» appears, when the calculus is already performed.

It is easy a posteriori to scold the Author for doing something differently than the Critic would have done if he could. (see, for ex., «I bombed Dresden».)

But is a bad idea, to attack someone who uses a sledgehammer to crack a nut.

References

https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/use+a+sledgehammer+to+crack+a+nut use a sledgehammer to crack a nut // To use excessive, overcomplicated, or extravagant means or force to accomplish something relatively minor or simple. With this new system of issuing licenses, the government is using a sledgehammer to crack a nut: four separate departments now handle each stage of an application, when a single department could easily process applications from start to finish. .. If someone uses a sledgehammer to crack a nut, they use methods to solve a problem that are far more extreme than is necessary. The widespread campaign by the government to reduce childhood obesity is, she says, using a sledgehammer to crack a nut. Bankers say that the proposed law is a sledgehammer to crack a nut. Note: People sometimes replace sledgehammer with hammer. Robbins's film takes a large hammer to crack a familiar nut. Compare with be breaking a butterfly on a wheel. Note: A sledgehammer is a large heavy hammer which is used for smashing rocks and concrete. .. use a ˌsledgehammer to crack a ˈnut use more force than is necessary: It was a small and peaceful demonstration so I don’t know why there was such a big police presence. It was like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.

https://redkiwiapp.com/ja/english-guide/idioms/crack-a-nut-with-a-sledgehammer Crack a nut with a sledgehammer 慣用句 意味/例文を学ぼう Crack a nut with a sledgehammerどういう意味でしょうか？ "Crack a nut with a sledgehammer"、単純なタスクを達成するために過度の力や労力を使用することを意味します。 実際にどうやって使われますか？ 下の例文を通して各単語がどのような状況でどのように使われるのか見てみましょう! 例文 He always cracks a nut with a sledgehammer when it comes to fixing things around the house. 彼はいつもスレッジハンマーでナットを割るそれは家の周りのものを修理することになると。

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