On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 11:36:46PM -0600, Frank Sorenson wrote: > On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Soren Harward said: > > Sheesh, all of you have failed. 92,957,000 is most definitely only 5 > > sig figs. If you specified it as 92957000. (notice the terminal decimal > > point), 9.2957000e8 , or specified that the error was less than 10 miles > > (like 92957000 +/- 2 mi), *then* you could say that it's 8 sig figs. > > Otherwise, it's only 5. And 186,282 is 6 sig figs. > > See below for 8 .sig figs: > > Frank > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > fig fig fig fig fig fig fig fig
And Frank wins the ``groan award'' for the week.
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