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Anonymous Fri 11 Feb 15:29:58 2022 No.14217527 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>14217542 >>14217549 >>14217581 >>14217733 >>14218016 >>14220510

what a retarded meme. whats the point of this? you're just turning a number into a much harder to read form

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 11 Feb 2022 15:32:16 No.14217533 Report

Quoted By: >>14217540

u don need all the significant digits u kno

4.58e9 is very easy to read

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 11 Feb 2022 15:35:00 No.14217540 Report

Quoted By: >>14217545 >>14217550 >>14217570 >>14217587 >>14217655 >>14220355 >>14221227 >>14223287

>>14217533
that's not precise though. isnt science all about precision?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 11 Feb 2022 15:35:36 No.14217542 Report

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>>14217527
>much harder to read
filtered

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 11 Feb 2022 15:36:53 No.14217545 Report

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>>14217540
no

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 11 Feb 2022 15:37:38 No.14217549 Report

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>>14217527
You only do that with numbers with shit tonnes of 0s
E.g 45600000000 into 4.56 x 10^10

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 11 Feb 2022 15:37:47 No.14217550 Report

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>>14217540
not if it's physics, because beyond a certain point the reading of the instrument doesn't matter

read about the physics laboratory, there's a precision to each instrument, and error

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 11 Feb 2022 15:43:49 No.14217570 Report

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>>14217540
>isn't science all about precision
no

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 11 Feb 2022 15:45:37 No.14217581 Report

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>>14217527
Qucik, tell me what the magnitude difference of 1823731236,72 and 2727346421236 is

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 11 Feb 2022 15:48:47 No.14217587 Report

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>>14217540
no retard

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 11 Feb 2022 16:06:06 No.14217655 Report

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>>14217540
Unironically, no

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 11 Feb 2022 16:29:29 No.14217733 Report

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>>14217527
What's 50000000000000 times 80000000000000000000?
idk
What's 5e13 times 8e19?
40e32 = 4e33 obviously

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 11 Feb 2022 16:33:46 No.14217747 Report

Quoted By: >>14217763 >>14220632

>>14217733
i always see scientific notation being used to simplify numbers that arent followed by a bunch of zeros. its a complete meme

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 11 Feb 2022 16:38:04 No.14217763 Report

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>>14217747
You're a real dumbass

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 11 Feb 2022 17:58:14 No.14218016 Report

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>>14217527
>whats the point of this?
The most important information about a number is the exponent and then the first few digits with each additional digit being less important. If you simply know the exponent you can do quick back of the envelope order of magnitude calculations.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 06:01:02 No.14220028 Report

Quoted By: >>14220347

Numbers aren't important

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 08:55:40 No.14220282 Report

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How is it harder? It's supposed to be easier and it is.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 09:18:15 No.14220321 Report

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How do people like OP even use computers?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 09:44:21 No.14220347 Report

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>>14220028
Or real.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 09:47:46 No.14220355 Report

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>>14217540
You use the digits you need. If you think the difference between 6 and 5 at the end of a number that starts with 4 billion is meaningful then you use it, otherwise no.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 11:45:31 No.14220510 Report

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>>14217527
wait until you find how floating point numbers are stored in binary for computers to use.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 13:24:50 No.14220632 Report

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>>14217747
An old man and his grandson go to the museum. The young grandson asks how old the dinosaur bones in the display are. The old man says "four million and three years old". The boy says "wow, how did you know?" The old guy says "I came here three years ago and they told me they were four million years old."

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Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 13:52:59 No.14220672 Report

Quoted By: >>14220684

engineering notation is the best

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 13:57:36 No.14220684 Report

Quoted By: >>14223291

>>14220672
Yotta deez nuts

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 13:57:47 No.14220685 Report

Quoted By: >>14220689

>>14217581
Idk what is it

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 14:00:16 No.14220689 Report

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>>14220685
exactly

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 16:27:24 No.14221227 Report

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>>14217540
you choose the precision appropriate for your needs

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Feb 2022 02:47:08 No.14223287 Report

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>>14217540
it's about acceptable levels of precision
literally one of the first things you learn in university-level mathematics is the delta-epsilon definition of limits, whereby you understand that the point is that you can arbitrarily increase the precision of the input in order to achieve a desired level of precision in the output

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Feb 2022 02:49:00 No.14223291 Report

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>>14220684
deez nuts start weighing a few yottagrams if I retain my seed for a few days, accidentally killed a girl by hitting her with a rope of cum that had the equivalent momentum of a truck crashing into her at 300 km/h

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