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From: phys-l-bounces@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu [mailto:phys-l-
bounces@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu] On Behalf Of John Denker
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 10:40 AM
To: Forum for Physics Educators
Subject: Re: [Phys-l] formatting uncertainties
Did everybody notice that all of the fundamental constants on
the NIST site e.g.
http://physics.nist.gov/cgi-bin/cuu/Value?bg
are quoted with multiple uncertain digits? Haven't you ever
wondered if there might be a reason for that?