• chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    But that 5/32 screw has its precision built into the measurement. Sig figs and error ranges aren’t required for fractional, because both are built into the denominator.

    If your 5/32 measurement is super precise you can record it as 160/1024ths, because the denominator has “+/- 1/2048” built into the measurement.