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Should twin galaxies care about significant figures?
I noticed 1.90 gets turned into 1.9, which is true from a pure math point of view, but from science, video games and anything else its a problem.
you know, 1.9 just means that if you measure with accuracy to the 1/10s, its 1.9 whereas 1.90 means the margin of error is even smaller.
for a speedrun, if someone truly has 1.90 that is different from 1.9 in terms of how accurate the measurement is. Is this minor point worth discussing? cause it certainly has benefit, but considering how much confusion milliseconds cause (plenty of people think 1.9 means 9 millisecons) i wonder if i should even bring this up, then again if we had sig figs, as opposed to being forced to enter 3 digits every time maybe that actually would solve the old confusion as well as allow for the greater accuracy.