On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 at 12:21pm, Jon LaBadie wrote

> On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 11:58:03AM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> > On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 at 11:51am, Jon LaBadie wrote
> > 
> > > I also go into the source and change the columns with single decimal digits
> > > to having zero decimal digits and no decimal point.  Do I really care if
> > > the tape rate was 975.8 KB/sec as compared to 976?  Or that u07's /var FS
> > > compressed to 43.2 percent of its original size vs 43%?
> > 
> > YES!  For $DEITY's sake, man, don't carelessly toss away 
> > precious significant digits!
> > 
> > Ahem.  This aside has been brought to you by my type A, engineering past.
> 
> The $NETHERDEITY you say!  The digits are not tossed, just not reported.
> They are recoverable by dividing two other columns.  ;)

Yeah, but I'm also lazy... ;)

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University

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