What is precision of a number representation? (was: Curious Omission In New-Style Formats)
Steven D'Aprano
steve at pearwood.info
Tue Jul 12 00:19:37 EDT 2016
On Tue, 12 Jul 2016 07:51 am, Chris Angelico wrote:
> say, 2,147
> millimeters, with a precision of four significant digits
How do you represent 1 mm to a precision of four significant digits, in such
a way that it is distinguished from 1 mm to one significant digit, and 1 mm
to a precision of four decimal places?
0001
1
1.0000
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Steven
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