7 Mar
2014
7 Mar
'14
1:16 p.m.
On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 05:11:21PM +1100, Steven D'Aprano wrote: [...]
there is *absolutely no reason to think* that the decimal number 2.01 will be more accurate than the binary number 10.101000111101011100001010001111010111000010100, or for that matter, the base-7 number 2.0462046204620462. The difference between those three representations is usually minor compared to the actual measurement errors of the initial data and the rounding errors from the calculation.
Er, apparently I cannot convert fractions into base 7 even using Python. That should be 2.003300330033 in base 7. The number I gave was actually 2.1. -- Steven