daniel added a comment. In https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T105623#1630587, @Jc3s5h wrote:
> On further reflection, I would do what I described above, unless there was > only one significant digit. In that case I would set the precision to 1 times > ten to the n. Examples: 7000 ± 1000; 1920 ± 50. We cannot assume that trailing zeros are insignificant. The default uncertainty for 7000 should be the same as the default precision of 7777 (currently +/-1, possibly to be +/-0.5 in the future). "seven thousand" can be written as 7e3 to indicate that only the 7 is significant. This would currently be interpreted as 7000+/-1000 (possibly to become +/-500 in the future). TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T105623 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: daniel Cc: Jc3s5h, thiemowmde, kaldari, daniel, Stryn, Lydia_Pintscher, Liuxinyu970226, Snipre, Event, Ash_Crow, mgrabovsky, Micru, Denny, He7d3r, Bene, Wikidata-bugs, Ricordisamoa, Kelson, MSGJ, Klortho, Wolfvoll, Aklapper, aude _______________________________________________ Wikidata-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-bugs
