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puts on grumpy old man hat Yeah, back in my day you had to learn about significant digits because we still used slide rules and the calculators didn't have as m
by dickersnoodle 3y ago
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Yeah, back in my day you had to learn about significant digits because we still used slide rules and the calculators didn't have as many functions and we liked it!
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- tobinfricke 3y agoThat's not the reason sigfigs are important.
- dickersnoodle 3y agoOh, I'm aware. On the way to getting a bachelor's in Chemistry I was drilled on the importance of sigfigs as a way of preventing data contamination by artificial precision (e.g. trying to weigh 16.0000000000 lbs with a bathroom scale). It just seemed funnier this way...