Nuts and bolts. SAE, Metric, or both
I been wrenching on vehicles all my life. It use to be only SAE, then it became a mix of SAE and Metric. I thought they we're going to phase out SAE and go all metric at some point, but it seems like ...
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fj12ryder wrote:Really? You gave a figure to 3 digits (and another to 4 digits), and now want to claim you rounded it to 2? YOU are the one who thought it important to give 4 digits of precision, not me. You really fail at math.mike-s wrote:"Rounding means making a number simpler but keeping its value close to what it was." You can feel .010", one ten-thousandths of an inch is barely even perceptible. Geeze louise. And I thought I had the lead in pedantry.
0.5625 - 0.551 = 0.0115, not 0.010. It's simple subtraction, taught in grade school.
Oh, and rounding 0.0115 to 3 digits would be 0.012.
