Significant digits in a float?

[Roy Smith]

In article <mailman.9596.1398818760.18130.python-list at python.org>,
 Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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

The cake is a lie.