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People use significant digits colloquially, though with a lot less rigour. For example, If I say I'm 6 feet tall, people will probably guess that I'm between 5
by frenchyatwork 7y ago
People use significant digits colloquially, though with a lot less rigour. For example, If I say I'm 6 feet tall, people will probably guess that I'm between 5 ft 10 in and 6 ft 2 in. If I say I'm 5 ft 11 in, people will probably guess that I'm between 5 ft 10.5 in and 5 ft 11.5 in.
- seandougall 7y agoYeah, but "-37.80467681 144.9659498" has no meaning colloquially to almost anybody, because normal humans don't think in latitude and longitude in the first place. To me, those are just values to copy and paste into a maps app to see where something is, and if it's pointing to more or less the right location, I'm happy. They're like the physical-world equivalent of a URL; I don't honestly care if there's an unused query string parameter tacked onto the end of it or if it redirects to https or something; all I care about is that the link I clicked on gets me to the correct cat video.