Significant digits in a float?
Adam Funk
a24061 at ducksburg.com
Tue Apr 29 16:16:08 EDT 2014
On 2014-04-29, Roy Smith wrote:
> Another possibility is that they're latitude/longitude coordinates, some
> of which are given to the whole degree, some of which are given to
> greater precision, all the way down to the ten-thousandth of a degree.
That makes sense. 1° of longitude is about 111 km at the equator,
78 km at 45°N or S, & 0 km at the poles.
"A man pitches his tent, walks 1 km south, walks 1 km east, kills a
bear, & walks 1 km north, where he's back at his tent. What color is
the bear?" ;-)
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War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.
[Ambrose Bierce]
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