[ExI] significant figures

[William Flynn Wallace]

So why aren't the math people in charge, Spike?   bill w

On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 9:02 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> >… has lied 16,241 times in the 3 years …
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> News people often mix numbers having several significant digits to a
> subjective category.  It is analogous to saying “In the northern hemisphere
> it is cold 37.641 percent of the time.”  That depends of course on who is
> being asked if it is cold.
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> News people don’t really get this.
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> Science rules in our world.  Math rules reality.  The rest of it is just
> sound and fury.
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