>you WILL guess the last digit on a measurement made by the $20000 piece of precision equipment you need an SSN, fingerprints, retina scan, and anal prints to access in the university (it's definitely not accurate and can't be trusted)
>w-what? no. that decimal you cut off after multiplying in the first calculation definitely isn't the reason you yielded much more than expected
>cant round numbers at your own discretion based on the size and nature of the reaction taking place
>sorry bud, but if you multiply 4.5039 times 2.5 it actually equals just 11, not 11.25975
>what the fuck are you doing? 0.2500000001 has ten significant figures. you can't round it to 0.25 even though it's gonna get cut off in the next calculation
>yeah that scale measured 10.5 grams, but you gotta write 10.50. no you can't write 10.5 +/- 0.01 that's not SCIENCE
>w-what? no we're definitely not introducing this complicated rounding system first thing in beginners chemistry and forgetting about it for 2-3 weeks while we teach atomic structure, the periodic table, and ions so the masses immediately hate chemistry and never try to figure out the wide variety of explosives, acids, poisons, gases, materials, and drugs you can make with chemicals from home depot, pharmacies, and commercial supply stores
Why the fuck did this ever become a standard?
>w-what? no. that decimal you cut off after multiplying in the first calculation definitely isn't the reason you yielded much more than expected
>cant round numbers at your own discretion based on the size and nature of the reaction taking place
>sorry bud, but if you multiply 4.5039 times 2.5 it actually equals just 11, not 11.25975
>what the fuck are you doing? 0.2500000001 has ten significant figures. you can't round it to 0.25 even though it's gonna get cut off in the next calculation
>yeah that scale measured 10.5 grams, but you gotta write 10.50. no you can't write 10.5 +/- 0.01 that's not SCIENCE
>w-what? no we're definitely not introducing this complicated rounding system first thing in beginners chemistry and forgetting about it for 2-3 weeks while we teach atomic structure, the periodic table, and ions so the masses immediately hate chemistry and never try to figure out the wide variety of explosives, acids, poisons, gases, materials, and drugs you can make with chemicals from home depot, pharmacies, and commercial supply stores
Why the fuck did this ever become a standard?
