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Re:Turning the iPhone 6s Into a Digital Scale by skaevola on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @07:36PM (#10468186)
Really cool app, and a shame Apple rejected it. Using a spoon was a very clever idea.

Why did you choose to display weight in grams to 3 decimal points when the measurements are only accurate to within 3g? It would be better to not display the values after the decimal point, so you don't give your users a false sense of accuracy.

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Re:Turning the iPhone 6s Into a Digital Scale by ryanmcleod on Monday November 02, 2015 @02:03AM (#10490460)
(Sorry for the slow response!) I'm really glad you called this out! You're totally right. The demo video was shot with an earlier version of the app before this was fixed :)

Here's a more recent video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3S95b9gAC8 One decimal place (in grams) was kept since precision != accuracy.

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