Note probably best in general to avoid phrasing things in terms of digits, due to the possibility of a cascade of 9s. Here I guess since we’re not getting 9s it’s not an issue. But yes as you can say you can bound the errors and see that the ranges don’t overlap!
Okay, I’ll even take on the defender of my little paradox. A “cascade of 9” isn’t a real thing: a number doesn’t suddenly become larger just because it reaches 100 instead of 99. In hexadecimal you get cascades of F’s, and in binary you get cascades of 1’s.
But at least that’s just a cognitive bias — not a a pathological case of “Calculus I”
What’s more concerning is how quickly people downvote things they don’t understand.
Dismissing something because it doesn’t immediately make sense isn’t critical thinking it’s avoidance disguised as skepticism. Sad af.
Note probably best in general to avoid phrasing things in terms of digits, due to the possibility of a cascade of 9s. Here I guess since we’re not getting 9s it’s not an issue. But yes as you can say you can bound the errors and see that the ranges don’t overlap!
Okay, I’ll even take on the defender of my little paradox. A “cascade of 9” isn’t a real thing: a number doesn’t suddenly become larger just because it reaches 100 instead of 99. In hexadecimal you get cascades of F’s, and in binary you get cascades of 1’s.
But at least that’s just a cognitive bias — not a a pathological case of “Calculus I”
What’s more concerning is how quickly people downvote things they don’t understand.
Dismissing something because it doesn’t immediately make sense isn’t critical thinking it’s avoidance disguised as skepticism. Sad af.