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dhughes on July 19, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Five Men Agree To Stand Directly Under An Explodin...

13,397 feet

backprojection on July 19, 2012 [–]

14,000 feet. Sorry to nitpick! You go with the min of the sigfigs in the expression, which here is 2 = sigfigs(12) < sigfigs(13,397.28) = 7

dhughes on July 19, 2012 | [–]

Ha, don't worry about it.

I was thinking it was the significant digits after the decimal. It's always been my weakness calculation-wise.

How about 14E3 feet? :P

backprojection on July 19, 2012 | | [–]

much better!

dhughes on July 22, 2012 | | [–]

Or 1.4E4 to put it in proper scientific notation.

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