On Sun, 18 Dec 2022 11:14:28 -0500, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > .. And maybe lament the days when a 3-digit result was acceptable in > math class -- being the typical capability in reading a standard (10" > scale) slide rule.
Arguably more thought was given to what those three digits meant in the real world. For example, is calculating a latitude to 6 decimal places meaningful when the data was gathered by a GPS receiver with 5m accuracy? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
