Re: 2 Questions about Planck units and equations.

Golden Boar wrote:
> The values were taken from NIST, and i've told you before, I don't give
> a crap about significant digits.

That was sort of my point. Significant digits are a crucial
portion of science. If you don't pay close attention to the
accuracy of a physical quantity, then your results are wrong.
It does not matter whether you report the correct number or
not, if you can't tell how accurate it is, it's wrong.

Your understanding of science is about at a grade 6 level.
About that of a twelve year old.

> I asked a question, and you answered this with complete rubbish.

Well, no, what I told you was that you asked a complete rubbish
question. And you still don't understand why.

> If you don't know the answer, then put a sock in it.

I do know the answer. You can't comprehend it.

But I'll give you another chance. Let us consider a calculation
that involves taking the difference of two numbers. And let us
suppose we are trying to do this calculation on a computer.
And let us suppose that the two numbers are

1.54897438743

and

1.54897438742

but that the particular numerical representation on the computer
is only able to hold 8 significant digits.

What will be the result?
Socks

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