The arbitrary choice of the range/precision trade-off
Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2019 12:38 pm
The value of g on Earth is 9.80665 m/s^2uwot wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2019 12:29 pmYes please.Logik wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2019 12:23 pmCool. Start a thread in which you explain why 9.81 is approximately 9.8, but it is NOT approximately 10Scott Mayers wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2019 12:22 pm logik, we don't need to stay on Willy's thread for this. Let's give his thread a break. It's drifting way off topic.
Which can be rounded up as follows:
In base 10 with precision of 2 decimal places g ≈ 9.81 (≈ for approximately)
In base 10 with precision of 1 decimal place g ≈ 9.8
In base 10 with precision of 0 decimal places g ≈ 10
In base 11 with precision of 0 decimal places g ≈ 11
In base 12 with precision of 0 decimal places g ≈ 12
....
In base 19 with precision of 0 decimal places g ≈ 19
In base 20 with precision of 0 decimal places g ≈ 0
This is how deconstruction works in practice. By simply making arbitrary choices about my numeric system and my precision I can render g to be a meaningless dichotomy. 1 or 0.
Now I am asking you the question:
WHY have you CHOOSEN to round 9.81 up to 9.8 and stopped there?
Why didn't you round it up to 10?
Or 11?
Or 12?
Or 18?
You could have, but you didn't.
WHY?