” a blood alcohol content of .110. The legal limit in Virginia, which has strict drunken driving laws, is .08.”
,08 is the limit. He was .11, .03 over the limit. Why the extra “0?” .110? Why not make it look even worse, and print “a blood alcohol limit of .1100000?”
Precisely.
““a blood alcohol limit of .1100000?””
I meant to say;
“print that he had a blood level CONTENT of .1100000.”
Need coffee!
Don’t worry. Most people don’t understand decimals. They don’t know if there is a difference between .11 and .110 or .1100.
I’ve seen people in graduate school who can’t tell you which is larger, .170 or .71. Many of them explain their answers this way: “Everything works backwards to the right of the decimal.”