Nat Hager III wrote:
>
> Follow-up here:
>
> This may have inadvertently provided incentive for the over-precise rounding
> in SI declarations. Since the SI declaration carried legal weight,
> manufacturers simply looked it up to 8 decimal places in the NIST handbook,
> and quoted verbatum. Simple, basic CYA.
>
> What would be interesting is if the larger declaration ruled, with *neither*
> stated to more than 2 significant figures...
I believe the rules cover that. Overly precise statements are
undoubtedly not allowed. More to the point, no packager would bother or
want to waste the label space on that.
Jim
