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John Denker and I obviously come down on different sides of the
question of whether or not there exists even a single problem which
1) has an answer that would and should be positively embarrassing to
quote to 10 or more digits
AND
2) is NOT merely an "ivory-tower busywork assignment, where the
answer will not be used for any practical purpose, but instead will
simply be checked for compliance with artificial, nonsensical rules.
In support of my contention that there MOST certainly are, I would
submit every worthy Fermi question ever asked.
He or she is demonstrating his or her numerical ignorance.....
I will continue to penalize [students] for using, say 1
digit or 6 or more in such a case.
I'd be utterly flabbergasted to hear you quote a length as 3.8675309
cm if you only knew it to within a few mm.