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0 pointsheartbeats6y ago0 comments

Rounding up .5 is considered proper form.

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I agree. If you only have two significant digits to work with, pretending to have more precision is a different kind of dishonesty.

100 - (3.5 +/- epsilon) is 96.5 +/- epsilon.

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0 pointsheartbeats6y ago0 comments

Rounding up .5 is considered proper form.

sp3326y ago

I agree. If you only have two significant digits to work with, pretending to have more precision is a different kind of dishonesty.

100 - (3.5 +/- epsilon) is 96.5 +/- epsilon.

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