Significant digits in a float?

[Chris Angelico]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 10:37 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber
<wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Apr 2014 08:51:32 +1000, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com>
> declaimed the following:
>
>>
>>Any point where the mile east takes you an exact number of times
>>around the globe. So, anywhere exactly one mile north of that, which
>>is a number of circles not far from the south pole.
>>
>         Yeah, but he'd have had to bring his own bear...
>
>         Bears and Penguins don't mix. Seals, OTOH, are food to the bears, and
> eat the penquins.

Maybe the bear was an antarctic researcher who ate Merida's cake?
That'd change anyone's fate...

ChrisA