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From: Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>
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Subject: Re: Significant digits in a float?
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 09:45:40 +1200
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Ned Batchelder wrote:
> Reminds me of the story that the first survey of Mt. Everest resulted in 
> a height of exactly 29,000 feet, but to avoid the appearance of an 
> estimate, they reported it as 29,002: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2684102

They could have said it was 29.000 kilofeet.

-- 
Greg