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To: dangus

They’re able to measure temperature to ten-thousandths of a degree precision?? I’d really like to see the thermometer that generated these numbers. (Yes, I know, these numbers are undoubtedly the result of averaging across a huge number of different thermometers. They’ve probably also applied ‘correction factors’ to the raw readings.)


14 posted on 12/17/2007 11:52:56 AM PST by Bob
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To: Bob

>> They’re able to measure temperature to ten-thousandths of a degree precision?? I’d really like to see the thermometer that generated these numbers. (Yes, I know, these numbers are undoubtedly the result of averaging across a huge number of different thermometers. They’ve probably also applied ‘correction factors’ to the raw readings.) <<

I’m sure the bizzarre precision is the result of dividing the sum of so many readings by a very large denominator.


135 posted on 12/17/2007 2:58:13 PM PST by dangus
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