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Re:Data scientists need to learn about significant digits by dickersnoodle on Monday December 25, 2023 @05:43PM (#38766981)
puts on grumpy old man hat Yeah, back in my day you had to learn about significant digits because we still used slide rules and the calculators didn't have as many functions and we liked it! removes grumpy old man hat
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Re:Data scientists need to learn about significant digits by tobinfricke on Monday December 25, 2023 @06:13PM (#38767237)
That's not the reason sigfigs are important.
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Re:Data scientists need to learn about significant digits by dickersnoodle on Saturday January 06, 2024 @10:41AM (#38892302)
Oh, I'm aware. On the way to getting a bachelor's in Chemistry I was drilled on the importance of sigfigs as a way of preventing data contamination by artificial precision (e.g. trying to weigh 16.0000000000 lbs with a bathroom scale). It just seemed funnier this way...
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