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For general sanity: $150,000,000
by DarkIye 11y ago
For general sanity: $150,000,000
- victorNicollet 11y agoTo be pedantic, 1.5e8 carries additional information about accuracy: $150,000,000 ± $5,000,000. By contrast, 1.50e8 would be ten times as accurate, and so on. Of course, accuracy is hardly relevant here.
- moron4hire 11y agos/accuracy/precision Sorry, I don't usually try to be pedantic, but when the conversation is already about nitpicking, I think it's necessary. Significant figures are precision, not accuracy. Accuracy is "being in the ballpark". Precision is "tight groups".
- victorNicollet 11y agoI'm sorry for the confusion. English is not my first language, and I resorted to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accuracy_and_precision https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accuracy_and_precision to pick between "accuracy" and "precision".
- mikeash 11y agoTo put it another way: "pi is exactly 3" is extremely precise, but not very accurate.
- moron4hire 11y agoOn the other hand, if you had said "Pi is 3", you would have been accurate, but not very precise. If you said "Pi is "Pi is 3.14", you would have been so precise that you could have gotten to the moon and back.
- mikeash 11y agoDamn, and here I thought I needed to build a gigantic rocket.
- moron4hire 11y agoMy statement was accurate, just lacking in precision on the details :P
- tankenmate 11y agoThe very next task of mine is a new value of pi to define. I think I'll use 3 it's much simpler you see; than 3.14159
- dredmorbius 11y agoYou've simpified pi, that's fo' shore. But rivalry says "level-up score". With competitive drive, It's yet higher I strive. The value I'll use shall be four.
- keithblaha 11y agoWell played
- e40 11y agoOr, the usual and shorter $150M.