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this post was submitted on 07 Dec 2023
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Significant figures is what I'm talking about. The entire point of them is to prevent spurious precision. How do you record a measurement of 3/4 precise to 1/4 using sig figs?
You can't do .75 because that's implying a precision 25 times greater than the measurement.
You can't do .8 because that's implying a precision that's still 2.5 times more precise than the measurement.
So it's 1.