Significant digits in a float?

[alister]

On Thu, 01 May 2014 09:34:35 -0700, emile wrote:

> On 04/30/2014 11:21 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2014-04-29, emile <emile at fenx.com> wrote:
>>> On 04/29/2014 01:16 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?"  ;-)
>>>
>>>   From how many locations on Earth can someone walk one mile south,
>>>   one
>>> mile east, and one mile north and end up at their starting point?
>>
>> I'm pretty sure there are places in London like that.  At least that's
>> what it seemed like to somebody from the midwestern US where the
>> streets are layed out on a grid.
> 
> I was going to bring up London, but as I recall from my brief visit
> there, I wasn't sure you could go one mile straight in any direction.
> 
> :)
> 
> Emile

100 yds is pushing it




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