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[Kiki]

Um, it's not that hard. Can you count? Can you add? Can you subtract? Great! You can do it in your head.

No.
And I don't even know my colors yet.

 

[RUNuts]

Precision is infinite; you can extend decimal places for either system as far as you want. That is, assuming you have the tech to back up that precision with accuracy. Precision in whole units is rather arbitrary in a scientific sense, assuming it's not absurdly large or small.

This is what I tell my work mates:
2+2 is somewhere between 3 and 5. How accurate is the "2"?

In other words, how much time, money, and effort do you want to invest in an answer that may or may not be to the question asked? Imprecise or efficient?

How close is close enough? For example, -20°C is bloody cold. So is -5°C. Therefore, anything less than 33°F is cold. Oops metric, anything less than 273.706°K is cold.

Did you hear about the chemist who froze himself to absolute zero?

He is 0K. (0°K).

For you Aggies, 0°K is absolute zero.

 

[BantyChooks]

This is what I tell my work mates:
2+2 is somewhere between 3 and 5. How accurate is the "2"?

In other words, how much time, money, and effort do you want to invest in an answer that may or may not be to the question asked? Imprecise or efficient?

How close is close enough? For example, -20°C is bloody cold. So is -5°C. Therefore, anything less than 33°F is cold. Oops metric, anything less than 273.706°K is cold.

Did you hear about the chemist who froze himself to absolute zero?

He is 0K. (0°K).

For you Aggies, 0°K is absolute zero.

 

[RUNuts]

Kiki - convert in your head.

0°C = 32°F
0*2+32=32 ==> Cold

25°C = 77°F
25*2+32=82 ==> Good

50°C = 122°
50*2+32= 132 ==> Hot

Close enough for government work.

For precision, x°C*9/5+32=y°F. Real easy to derive as long as you know 2 measurements in both.

May the ma^2 be with you!

 

[Kiki]

Kiki - convert in your head.

0°C = 32°F
0*2+32=32 ==> Cold

25°C = 77°F
25*2+32=82 ==> Good

50°C = 122°
50*2+32= 132 ==> Hot

Close enough for government work.

For precision, x°C*9/5+32=y°F. Real easy to derive as long as you know 2 measurements in both.

May the ma^2 be with you!

Wait...it's that easy?
Multiple the celcuis crap by two then add 32.

I had no clue.

 

[BantyChooks]

In other words, how much time, money, and effort do you want to invest in an answer that may or may not be to the question asked? Imprecise or efficient?

That I leave up to the context. In certain areas, or goals, precision to dozens of decimal places is not only necessary, but it is also a thing of beauty. One needs to look no further than to the disastrous first images from the Hubble telescope to see that. In others, such as figuring out if your American friends are getting sunburnt or frostbitten... conserving time ekes out precedence.

Precision in itself risks becoming fanatical, self absorbed, pointless. This is not to say that sloppiness should be revered, but rather that mechanical progress should be tempered with a respect for human craftmanship. I am all for being precise in one's language, for vague references are the cover of fools—but I also see the limits of rationality being breached now and then.

 

[Kiki]

That I leave up to the context. In certain areas, or goals, precision to dozens of decimal places is not only necessary, but it is also a thing of beauty. One needs to look no further than to the disastrous first images from the Hubble telescope to see that. In others, such as figuring out if your American friends are getting sunburnt or frostbitten... conserving time ekes out precedence.

Precision in itself risks becoming fanatical, self absorbed, pointless. This is not to say that sloppiness should be revered, but rather that mechanical progress should be tempered with a respect for human craftmanship. I am all for being specific in one's language, for vague references are the cover of fools—but I also see limits for rationality being breached now and then.

You only need to know this to build elevators.
You don't need it for real life.

 

[BantyChooks]

Wait...it's that easy?
Multiple the celcuis crap by two then add 32.

I had no clue.

Times 9, divided by 5, plus 32.

 

[Kiki]

Times 9, divided by 5, plus 32.

Can I skip these 3?

 

[BantyChooks]

You only need to know this to build elevators.
You don't need it for real life.

To what extent? I can guarantee you that if you try to build a chicken coop but with measurements only precise to within a foot, you're going to have a real hard time of it. Yet at the same time, tolerances of .0000000001 aren't possible or useful. The concept itself is absolutely useful for daily life. Everything around you, every product of the modern age, owes its existence to the continually refined definition of "precise".