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The accuracy is implied in the nimber of dogots usually. So 37 is +-1C, 40 is +-10, and 36.6 is +-0.1
by kolinko 4y ago
The accuracy is implied in the nimber of dogots usually.
So 37 is +-1C, 40 is +-10, and 36.6 is +-0.1
- travisjungroth 4y agoDoesn’t work great when you want high precision on a number that ends with zeros or have a range that’s not a multiple of ten. The real answer is standard deviation or something like that.
- TylerE 4y agoSure it does. 10000 and 10000.000 have vastly different precision.
- travisjungroth 4y ago10,000 doesn’t disambiguate between an error of 1, 10, 100 or 1000.
- OJFord 4y ago1e4 does though (vs. 1.0e4, 1.00e4, etc.).
- jaggederest 4y agoScientific notation is the answer to this problem. 3.00 * 10^3 versus 3 * 10^3
- eyelidlessness 4y agoThe accuracy being implied in the “nimber” might not be intentional but it’s a great demonstration of the principle.
- techno_tsar 4y agoI was googling 'nimber' and 'dogot' because I thought it was some obscure but extremely relevant concept that I didn't know about.
- romwell 4y agoThe obscure, but extremely relevant concept is the English QWERTY keyboard layout, which places U, I, and O next to each other and makes typos like this more likely when you touch-type with two hands :)
- romwell 4y ago>The accuracy is implied in the number of digits usually. >So 37 is +-1C Yeah, but this doesn't work for human bodies when you round 36.5 either up to 37 or down to 36. * 38C is surely fever, 37 is mild fever for most people; * 36C is below-normal for most people, and 35C is surely hypothermia. 36.5 - 37C is the normal temperature range.
- antiatheist 4y agoWould 45C be ±1 or ±10? You can't provide a scaled ranges with the digits alone like that. Just use ± or a hyphenated range, and take it in context with adjacent measurements.
- BenjiWiebe 4y ago+/- 5