Significant digits in a float?
Roy Smith
roy at panix.com
Tue Apr 29 20:45:30 EDT 2014
In article <8td53bxud5.ln2 at news.ducksburg.com>,
Adam Funk <a24061 at ducksburg.com> wrote:
> 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?" ;-)
Assuming he shot the bear, red.
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