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From: seifert@hammer.UUCP (Snoopy)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: The Perils of Nutrasweet: digits of precision
Message-ID: <1430@hammer.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 7-Aug-85 13:02:33 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug  7 13:02:33 1985
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In article <622@ttidcc.UUCP> hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath) writes:

>>Both the quoted numbers (.007% and 10%) have only one significant
>>digit.  Leading and trailing zeroes are not significant.
>>

Wrongo.  .007 has ONE significant digit, .00700 has THREE.

007 (no leading decimal point) naturally has ten significant digits,
since all of James Bond's fingers are significant!  :-)

Snoopy
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