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When you accuse someone of being wrong, it's helpful to provide justification, not insults. Y: How do I strip unnecessary symbols after a decimal point? X: Ho
by lwerdna 5y ago
When you accuse someone of being wrong, it's helpful to provide justification, not insults.
Y: How do I strip unnecessary symbols after a decimal point?
X: How do I round a number to a desired precision?
It looks like the perfect example of XY problem to me. Please tell me how I'm confused.
- moralestapia 5y agoYour Y is not a different problem, it's just a poorly worded description of X. In an XY-problem situation, X and Y are different problems.
- lwerdna 5y agoThey are different problems. Stripping the final character from "3.14159" does not produce the same result as rounding to 3.1416. The first action concerns a syntactic property of PI's decimal representation while the second action concerns a semantic property of PI's value. A related example given on https://xyproblem.info https://xyproblem.info is a user asking (Y) how to extract the final 3 characters of a filename string when he probably intends to ask (X) how to retrieve a filename's extension.