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| From | Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> |
|---|---|
| Subject | Re: Significant digits in a float? |
| Date | 2014-04-30 20:02 -0400 |
| Organization | IISS Elusive Unicorn |
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On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 20:42:33 -0400, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> declaimed the
following:
>In article <mailman.9594.1398818045.18130.python-list@python.org>,
> Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
>> in a physics or chemistry class the recommended result is
>>
>> 1.1 * 2.2 => 2.4
>
>More than recommended. In my physics class, if you put down more
>significant digits than the input data justified, you got the problem
>marked wrong.
>
>> (one reason slide-rules were acceptable for so long -- and even my high
>> school trig course only required slide-rule significance even though half
>> the class had scientific calculators [costing >$100, when a Sterling
>> slide-rule could still be had for <$10]) <G>
>
>Sterling? Snort. K&E was the way to go.
Math teacher was selling them in my 10th grade... Actually I already
owned a Faber-Castell 57/22 "Business" ruler (which did NOT have the CF/DF
scales set for *PI) and a Pickett N-1010-ES Trig rule.
I've misplaced the Sterling, but I'm fairly sure it was a deci-trig
log-log model.
In the last 15-20 years I've added NIB versions of Faber-Castell 1/54
Darmstadt, Pickett N-803-ES Dual-Base Log-Log, Pickett Cleveland Institute
of Electronics N-515-T, and a pair of Sama&Etani/Concise circular pocket
rules (models 200 and 600).
Heh... I wonder if the VEs would have noticed the CIE rule had lots of
electronics formulas on the back, if I'd taken it to the exam session where
I passed both General and Amateur Extra tests. I couldn't take a calculator
-- all of mine were programmable. But the slide-rule I took was just about
as perplexing to the VEs.
--
Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN
wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/
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Significant digits in a float? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-04-28 12:00 -0400
Re: Significant digits in a float? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-04-29 02:34 +0000
Re: Significant digits in a float? Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-04-29 13:23 +1000
Re: Significant digits in a float? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2014-04-29 05:43 +0000
Re: Significant digits in a float? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2014-04-29 20:33 -0400
Re: Significant digits in a float? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-04-29 20:42 -0400
Re: Significant digits in a float? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2014-04-30 20:02 -0400
Re: Significant digits in a float? Mark H Harris <harrismh777@gmail.com> - 2014-04-30 22:54 -0500
Re: Significant digits in a float? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-04-30 20:56 -0700
Re: Significant digits in a float? Mark H Harris <harrismh777@gmail.com> - 2014-04-30 23:16 -0500
Re: Significant digits in a float? William Ray Wing <wrw@mac.com> - 2014-05-01 11:53 -0400
Re: Significant digits in a float? Mark H Harris <harrismh777@gmail.com> - 2014-05-06 11:29 -0500
Re: Significant digits in a float? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2014-05-01 22:06 -0400
Re: Significant digits in a float? Mark H Harris <harrismh777@gmail.com> - 2014-05-06 09:51 -0500
Re: Significant digits in a float? alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2014-05-06 15:18 +0000
Re: Significant digits in a float? Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2014-05-06 12:14 -0400
Re: Significant digits in a float? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2014-05-06 19:48 -0400
Re: Significant digits in a float? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-05-01 08:56 -0400
Re: Significant digits in a float? Larry Hudson <orgnut@yahoo.com> - 2014-05-01 12:51 -0700
Re: Significant digits in a float? Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2014-05-01 22:05 +0100
Re: Significant digits in a float? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2014-05-01 21:47 -0400
Re: Significant digits in a float? Mark H Harris <harrismh777@gmail.com> - 2014-05-06 09:59 -0500
[OT] Silde rules [was Re: Significant digits in a float?] Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-05-06 16:10 +0000
Re: [OT] Silde rules Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-05-07 10:01 +1000
Re: Significant digits in a float? Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2014-05-01 21:55 +0100
Re: Significant digits in a float? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2014-05-01 22:26 -0400
Re: Significant digits in a float? Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2014-05-08 20:58 +0100
Re: Significant digits in a float? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-04-29 09:38 -0400
Re: Significant digits in a float? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-04-30 02:30 +1000
Re: Significant digits in a float? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-04-29 19:53 -0400
Re: Significant digits in a float? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-04-30 10:13 +1000
Re: Significant digits in a float? Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-04-30 10:13 +1000
Re: Significant digits in a float? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-04-30 10:17 +1000
Re: Significant digits in a float? Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-04-30 10:20 +1000
Re: Significant digits in a float? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-04-30 18:19 +0000
Re: Significant digits in a float? Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2014-04-29 12:47 -0400
Re: Significant digits in a float? Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2014-04-30 09:45 +1200
Re: Significant digits in a float? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-04-30 02:59 +1000
Re: Significant digits in a float? Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2014-04-29 21:16 +0100
Re: Significant digits in a float? Mark H Harris <harrismh777@gmail.com> - 2014-04-29 15:39 -0500
Re: Significant digits in a float? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-04-30 07:15 +1000
Re: Significant digits in a float? Ryan Hiebert <ryan@ryanhiebert.com> - 2014-04-29 15:42 -0500
Re: Significant digits in a float? emile <emile@fenx.com> - 2014-04-29 15:42 -0700
Re: Significant digits in a float? alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2014-04-30 09:03 +0000
Re: Significant digits in a float? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-04-30 18:21 +0000
Re: Significant digits in a float? emile <emile@fenx.com> - 2014-05-01 09:34 -0700
Re: Significant digits in a float? alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2014-05-01 17:13 +0000
Re: Significant digits in a float? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-04-30 08:51 +1000
Re: Significant digits in a float? Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2014-04-30 20:14 +1200
Re: Significant digits in a float? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-04-30 18:27 +1000
Re: Significant digits in a float? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-04-30 14:05 +0100
Re: Significant digits in a float? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-04-30 00:34 +0100
Re: Significant digits in a float? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2014-04-29 20:37 -0400
Re: Significant digits in a float? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-04-29 20:45 -0400
Re: Significant digits in a float? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-04-30 10:45 +1000
Re: Significant digits in a float? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-04-29 20:48 -0400
Re: Significant digits in a float? Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-04-29 19:31 -0700
Re: Significant digits in a float? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-04-30 02:59 +0000
Re: Significant digits in a float? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-04-29 23:30 -0400
Re: Significant digits in a float? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-04-30 13:40 +1000
Re: Significant digits in a float? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-04-30 13:03 +1000
Re: Significant digits in a float? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-04-30 08:01 -0400
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Re: Off-topic circumnavigating the earth in a mile or less [was Re: Significant digits in a float?] Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-04-30 07:02 -0700
Re: Off-topic circumnavigating the earth in a mile or less Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2014-05-01 21:52 +0100
Re: Off-topic circumnavigating the earth in a mile or less [was Re: Significant digits in a float?] Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-05-01 00:27 +1000
Re: Off-topic circumnavigating the earth in a mile or less [was Re: Significant digits in a float?] Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-05-01 05:10 +1000
Re: Off-topic circumnavigating the earth in a mile or less [was Re: Significant digits in a float?] Ryan Hiebert <ryan@ryanhiebert.com> - 2014-04-30 10:24 -0500
Re: Off-topic circumnavigating the earth in a mile or less [was Re: Significant digits in a float?] Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-04-30 17:46 -0600
Re: Off-topic circumnavigating the earth in a mile or less [was Re: Significant digits in a float?] Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-04-30 22:20 -0400
Re: Off-topic circumnavigating the earth in a mile or less [was Re: Significant digits in a float?] Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2014-05-01 18:16 +1200
Re: Off-topic circumnavigating the earth in a mile or less Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2014-05-01 21:57 +0100
Re: Off-topic circumnavigating the earth in a mile or less Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-05-01 22:49 +0100
Re: Off-topic circumnavigating the earth in a mile or less alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2014-05-02 08:49 +0000
Re: Off-topic circumnavigating the earth in a mile or less [was Re: Significant digits in a float?] Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-05-01 11:57 +1000
Re: Off-topic circumnavigating the earth in a mile or less [was Re: Significant digits in a float?] Vlastimil Brom <vlastimil.brom@gmail.com> - 2014-05-01 09:49 +0200
Re: Significant digits in a float? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-04-30 02:50 +0000
Re: Significant digits in a float? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-04-30 18:18 +0000
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