Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!xlned.com!feeder7.xlned.com!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed4a.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail
Return-Path: <rosuav@gmail.com>
X-Original-To: python-list@python.org
Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org
X-Spam-Status: OK 0.136
X-Spam-Level: *
X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.75; '*S*': 0.02; 'yeah,': 0.09; 'cc:addr :python-list': 0.11; 'eat': 0.16; 'from:addr:rosuav': 0.16; 'from:name:chris angelico': 0.16; "he'd": 0.16; 'otoh,': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'wed,': 0.18; 'cc:addr:python.org': 0.22; 'cc:2**0': 0.24; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'point': 0.28; 'chris': 0.29; 'am,': 0.29; 'message-id:@mail.gmail.com': 0.30; 'maybe': 0.34; 'anywhere': 0.35; 'but': 0.35; 'received:google.com': 0.35; 'east': 0.36; 'subject:?': 0.36; 'so,': 0.37; 'that,': 0.38; 'globe.': 0.60; 'times': 0.62; '30,': 0.65; 'north': 0.65; 'food': 0.72; 'ate': 0.84; 'circles': 0.84; 'mile': 0.84; 'bears': 0.91; 'to:none': 0.92
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:cc :content-type; bh=5Xr/fVU60k+nMeVGCQJhpPsrAR7OUpE7YrOgaHF5Zq8=; b=Wqisye0BZA0zds5xRDS1IscFy7S09gt8WBhOFKa5WtDlTskMGzG137KrCKqoOF27Qg JzmedsvoM3HyssuzUDooIbSlQ7XAV6VQpspljiT2RXf1SIzP7ZCGZS4+iDOPGhWKEAK8 KA7oloSb6EFq9+O11rhBmhJ/F//FJ2ME1I7JQYvkJxQf12ctcTlFioBGO7TJ7BC7TWTM 9PQq99gowiBSlLNWUnClPeTficKMU6rWWN0VvB3gVj3KrSGHfyob0Z7RwgiUVjx7zUs1 zFD+Nn2ogxQyRRZ2D1oyBb3lLhWeYNVqV0GkFIstxidSiu+MMl8D5Fa1yDX4Rwn6C99B u6EA==
MIME-Version: 1.0
X-Received: by 10.58.13.104 with SMTP id g8mr980829vec.16.1398818758275; Tue, 29 Apr 2014 17:45:58 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <och0m91cb2taviscf1hor9n60pdg5htijb@4ax.com>
References: <mailman.9549.1398700831.18130.python-list@python.org> <535f0f9f$0$29965$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <roy-DA9493.09383329042014@news.panix.com> <8td53bxud5.ln2@news.ducksburg.com> <ljp9sp$h22$1@ger.gmane.org> <CAPTjJmqya7paQowEkY7-pfsSynybEYTVgC2QTbviX5DWc8VHUg@mail.gmail.com> <och0m91cb2taviscf1hor9n60pdg5htijb@4ax.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 10:45:58 +1000
Subject: Re: Significant digits in a float?
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Cc: "python-list@python.org" <python-list@python.org>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15
Precedence: list
List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language <python-list.python.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-list>, <mailto:python-list-request@python.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/>
List-Post: <mailto:python-list@python.org>
List-Help: <mailto:python-list-request@python.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list>, <mailto:python-list-request@python.org?subject=subscribe>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
Message-ID: <mailman.9596.1398818760.18130.python-list@python.org>
Lines: 19
NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6
X-Trace: 1398818760 news.xs4all.nl 2842 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:39731
X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl
Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:70748

On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 10:37 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber
<wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Apr 2014 08:51:32 +1000, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
> declaimed the following:
>
>>
>>Any point where the mile east takes you an exact number of times
>>around the globe. So, anywhere exactly one mile north of that, which
>>is a number of circles not far from the south pole.
>>
>         Yeah, but he'd have had to bring his own bear...
>
>         Bears and Penguins don't mix. Seals, OTOH, are food to the bears, and
> eat the penquins.

Maybe the bear was an antarctic researcher who ate Merida's cake?
That'd change anyone's fate...

ChrisA