Re: Too many numbers right of the decimal (OT)

John West Wrote:
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> I used to work in the finance industry where wild
> ass assumptions would be fed into a computer and
> the results would always come out with many
> numbers to the right of the decimal.
>
Ah yes, the Curse Of The Caculator. Science teachers everywhere have spent the last 50 years trying to pound the idea of significant digits into to student minds. Your answer CAN NOT be more precise than your data, in fact it will be LESS precise if you did any multiplication along the way and all that.
"But my calculator gives me more digits."

hank