Significant digits in a float?

Gregory Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Tue Apr 29 17:45:40 EDT 2014


Ned Batchelder wrote:
> Reminds me of the story that the first survey of Mt. Everest resulted in 
> a height of exactly 29,000 feet, but to avoid the appearance of an 
> estimate, they reported it as 29,002: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2684102

They could have said it was 29.000 kilofeet.

-- 
Greg



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