Chasing a number to its source, and finding where the precision stops
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You see a number somewhere. "This model is 94.3% accurate." "Pi is 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288." "The atmosphere is predictable out to two weeks." We tend to treat digits as one thing: more is better. It isn't. Past some point, the extra digits stop describing anything real and start desc…
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- 2026-10-09 20:02 · DEV Community — AI
Chasing a number to its source, and finding where the precision stops