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What's the alternative? Taking the liberty to round it up or down? Both could lead them to trouble. The best would be to mention the stated number with conversi
by unglaublich 2y ago
What's the alternative? Taking the liberty to round it up or down? Both could lead them to trouble. The best would be to mention the stated number with conversion in parenthesis.
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- acdha 2y agoI think the latter: 1,000km (621mi) makes it immediately understandable that it’s not 3 digits of precision.
- p51-remorse 2y ago“1,000km (about 600-700 miles)” would feel better.
- Daneel_ 2y ago“Several hundred miles” perhaps?
- p51-remorse 2y agoNah, that brings the 200-400mi range to my mind, far outside of the 750-1250km range that I intuit is implied by single-significant-digit “1000km” in this context.
- spicybbq 2y agoThis is worse because it implies "up to 700 miles" of range, which is not supported by the source.
- DennisP 2y agoStandard procedure in physics is to round to the closest number with the same number of significant digits. In this case, rounding down to 600, so people have a sense of how approximate the number is.