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Physicists are not in the book-selling business to at least three significant figures.

• Aloisius 2y ago
  I'm unsure what you mean by three significant figures. 99.8%? 1.57% 1,240? Physicists aren't generally in the book selling business, but authors generally want their books to be popular and presenting mathematical abstractions as physical reality certainly seems like it would make it more appealing to the general public (and of course, publishers).
  • samatman 2y ago
    It was meant to be witty more than informative, but it only has one meaning: to one significant figure would mean no more than 4.9% of physicists sell books. To three, it's 00.049%. I think less than 1 in two thousand physicists being book authors is accurate.