• rbos@lemmy.ca
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    2 hours ago

    “The fraction allows you to communicate length and tolerance in a single number”

    I don’t see how that isn’t true of decimals, too. 0.1 indicates a precision of 1 digit, 0.12 indicates a precision of 2, 0.120 indicates a precision of three.