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I see this a lot with bidding for government contracts, it's a known trick. There's a sign near me describing the new pipes going into the ground replacing the

I see this a lot with bidding for government contracts, it's a known trick. There's a sign near me describing the new pipes going into the ground replacing the ditches, it says the contract went to some company for something like $12,345,122 (not sure what the real number is, just an example). I've seen similar numbers on signs at my university describing contracts for new buildings.

mikeash 12y ago
Amusingly, this sort of thing happened with the first measured height of Mount Everest. It was measured at exactly 29,000ft, but they fudged it to 29,002ft so it didn't look like an estimate.
- anulman 12y ago
  Source: http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/2684102?sid=21105776664453&uid=2&uid=4 http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/2684102?sid=2110577666...
- prostoalex 12y ago
  They fudged it only for a small portion of world population that's using body parts lengths instead of metric system to measure things. It's exactly 8.8392 kilometers, seems highly scientific.
enbrill 12y ago
I'm sure they use some crazy equation to come up with that number.