Jc3s5h added a comment.
> We cannot assume that trailing zeros are insignificant. The default > uncertainty for 7000 should be the same as the default uncertainty of 7777 > (currently +/-1, possibly to be +/-0.5 in the future). "seven thousand" can > be written as 7e3 to indicate that only the 7 is significant. This would > currently be interpreted as 7000+/-1000 (possibly to become +/-500 in the > future). Yes, we can interpret trailing zeros to the left of the decimal point as not significant, unless the tolerance is specified explicitly with the ± symbol That is standard practice in science and engineering. For example, //Land Surveyor Reference Manual// 2nd ed. by Andrew Harbin p. 108 states: "A zero is //not// significant if it occurs at the end of a measured number unless information is available which indicates that it is." Some people may be ignorant of this convention, but by default we should adopt the greatest reasonable uncertainty. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T105623 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Jc3s5h Cc: Jc3s5h, thiemowmde, kaldari, daniel, Stryn, Lydia_Pintscher, Liuxinyu970226, Snipre, Event, Ash_Crow, mgrabovsky, Micru, Denny, He7d3r, Bene, Wikidata-bugs, Ricordisamoa, Kelson, MSGJ, Klortho, Wolfvoll, Aklapper, aude _______________________________________________ Wikidata-bugs mailing list Wikidata-bugs@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-bugs
