Significant figures

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From: Ben Pittenger (benpittenger@earthlink.net)
Date: Fri Jun 27 2003 - 06:53:10 PDT

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From: Ben Pittenger <benpittenger@earthlink.net>
Subject: Significant figures

How about batting averages? When someone hits 30 per cent of the time, I don't think they say S/he is batting .3 Instead I think they say 300 which brings in two zeros that are significant!

Is this a significant example?

Ben Pittenger

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