Now this was my original point!
I wanted to know the SIGNIFICANT digits. (oddly enough the subject of
my post) and I wanted this to be reflected no matter what the for of
display or internal storage.
see my IMD (in my dreams) post
Donna
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On 29-Jun-06, at 12:22 PM, Don Guinn wrote:
I remember something about a convention which has been lost with
the advent of computers of writing a number, say "2.5" implied that
the measurement was good to a tenth, where "2.500" implied it was
good to a thousant.
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