Sunshine (she/her)@piefed.caM to Buy European@feddit.ukEnglish · 17 days agoImperial Wastes So Much Timemedia.piefed.caimagemessage-square195linkfedilinkarrow-up1714arrow-down10
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minus-squareNobodyElse@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·16 days agoYou don’t need to use significant figures to convey precision. You can also explicitly state the uncertainty, like 1.25 ± 0.25 cm.
minus-squarechiliedogg@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-216 days agoBut even you don’t know how that works. Because 1/4cm precision would be ± 0.125cm
You don’t need to use significant figures to convey precision. You can also explicitly state the uncertainty, like 1.25 ± 0.25 cm.
But even you don’t know how that works.
Because 1/4cm precision would be ± 0.125cm
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