Please allow me a little levity, spinning off an earlier discussion of how many 
digits a decimal number type needs to store.

<https://www.datafix.com.au/BASHing/2019-03-31.html>

" Carbrook, for instance, is at -27.673862 153.25624 and at -27.673861999297635 
153.256240000388146.

[...] those 15-place figures locate the suburb's latitude to the nearest tenth 
of a nanometre, about half the diameter of a chlorine atom. "

First, spot the '999' and '0000' suggesting a problem.  Second wonder whether 
anyone read the data.

Apart from that, the article is complimentary about the format used for making 
a lot of data easily searchable.  So it's a nice example to use when talking 
about care with data preparation.
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