> 2 + 2 = 5, for very large values of 2 <
Ha! That’s actually an old saying in physics.
For the curious, here’s an example. Let’s say you have a poor scale that can only measure weight to the nearest pound. You weigh a brick, and get 2 pounds. But the brick might actually weigh 2.4 pounds if measured to the nearest tenth of a pound.
So two 2-pound bricks together would weigh 5 pounds.
(2.4 + 2.4 = 4.8, rounds to 5)
Thar old saying now also applies when a voting machine (computer) counts each 1 Democrat vote as 1.2 Democrat votes.
You can’t be more accurate than your measuring device.
Been telling people that for years.
That’s why any claims of temperatures over thousands of years claiming accuracy to thousandths or even tenths of a degree by TREE RINGS are bullsh*t.