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How well can you measure 0.5 orange? Is it 0.051 or 0.049? Or is it
really 0.5000000000000000000000... If you give your answer as 0.5, you
don't have an infinite #. Just 1.
Sam
Pete Lohstreter wrote:
Forum for Physics Educators <PHYS-L@list1.ucc.nau.edu> on Thursday,counted
September 22, 2005 at 11:36 AM -0600 wrote:
It's been a few days, but I believe the question asked was, if you
312.5 oranges, is it still an infinite number of sig. figs. or are there
sig. figs.?
My interpretation is that you have 25-half oranges and therefore an
infinite number of sigfigs....