Significant digits in a float?

[Chris Angelico]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 6:14 PM, Gregory Ewing
<greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>
> True, but there are no bears in Antarctica, so that
> rules out all the south-pole solutions.
>
> I think there are still multiple solutions, though.
> The bear may have been spray-painted by activists
> trying to protect it from polar trophy hunters.

Well, I did suggest it might have been a black bear:

http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130411125035/disney/images/8/88/Brave-brave-31312503-800-486.png

But spray paint would work too...

ChrisA