Significant figures is what I’m talking about. The entire point of them is to prevent spurious precision. How do you record a measurement of 3/4 precise to 1/4 using sig figs?
You can’t do .75 because that’s implying a precision 25 times greater than the measurement.
You can’t do .8 because that’s implying a precision that’s still 2.5 times more precise than the measurement.
Significant figures is what I’m talking about. The entire point of them is to prevent spurious precision. How do you record a measurement of 3/4 precise to 1/4 using sig figs?
You can’t do .75 because that’s implying a precision 25 times greater than the measurement.
You can’t do .8 because that’s implying a precision that’s still 2.5 times more precise than the measurement.
So it’s 1.