Significant digits in a float?

[Chris Angelico]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 6:39 AM, Mark H Harris <harrismh777 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/29/14 3:16 PM, Adam Funk wrote:
>>
>> "A man pitches his tent, walks 1 km south, walks 1 km east, kills a
>> bear, & walks 1 km north, where he's back at his tent.  What color is
>> the bear?"  ;-)
>>
>
> Who manufactured the tent?

A man pitches his tent 1 km south and kills a bear with it. Clearly
that wasn't a tent, it was a cricket ball.

ChrisA