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A comment on Street-Fighting Math: Educated Guessing and Opportunistic Problem Solving (2010) [pdf]. Parent comment

Re:Street-Fighting Math: Educated Guessing and Opportunistic... by TrainedMonkey on Monday May 15, 2017 @02:24PM (#14343832)
This makes sense. If the number is 5.5 by throwing away the .5 you lose less than 10% of precision. On the other hand if the number is 1.5 and you throw away the .5 you lose 50% precision.
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