steven787 said:
Thank you. But I don't like the wording of the last sentence. Perception may matter when measuring a circle for a drawing or building. But when working sets of data, a lot of precision is lost. 1/3+1/3+1/3 = 1 and .(3) + .(3) + .(3) = .(9) no big deal. but when you have 1/3 + 2/7 + 6/11 + 4/13 + 9/17 + 3/23 = .... that would lose a lot of accuracy if you convert each component to a decimal before adding them up. |
Of course, but i was speaking of this one particular subject. The one you brought up is a completely different matter and should be solved accordingly.
As to the wording: i had maths in Polish, not English, excuse my lack of accurate wording on the subject. I cannot agree with the first part of your post though.
If anything, with this set of data, this kind of simplifying is a must, or else you would have gone haywire trying to calculate precisely. When your making measurements of some kind of mathemetical object, there is no way to do it "on a hunch of perception" , you have to do it by the established equations.
Huh. Who would've thought that beggining anew in my real life would coincide with starting anew on vgchartz?
Any day now, the dollar will be worth less than 2 zloty......any day now.....and my life savings will be in total jepordy ;(.