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. . . Let's not confuse roundoff rules with sig-digs rules. The
non-ridiculous roundoff rules are:
-- keep many enough digits to avoid any unintended loss of
precision.
-- keep few enough digits to be reasonable convenient.
Those are my rules. They are a far, far cry fom the sig-digs rules
in typical intro textbooks. . . .