2nd March 2009, 6:49 AM
Nothing's all that significant, but everything's important
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4th March 2009, 10:21 PM
(This post was last modified: 5th March 2009, 11:29 AM by Dark Jaguar.)
Significant is in the eye of the final result. If any variable makes a measurable change in the final result, it's significant.
Of course then there's weather patterns. Stupid butterfly back in 1000 AD, this is all your fault! For more information on significant figures, see this: http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2009/03...igures.php
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
5th March 2009, 10:52 PM
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"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
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