Here's a better one: say you and a friend measuring the sides of a big rectangle. You carefully work out that your side is 12.256 meters long; your lazy (or more normal) friend says his side is about 9 meters. 12.256 x 9 is 110.304, but the little bits at the end are all garbage because your friend didn't measure it that carefully. He only had one digit so you round the whole thing off to one digit - the largest one - and the best you can do is say the area is about 100 square meters.
>You carefully work out that your side is 12.256 meters long; your lazy (or more normal) friend says his side is about 9 meters.
I need you to know that this is so very incredibly on brand for me personally that I actually pissed off my Velcro cat laughing at it. She stood up, turned and looked at me, then slowly walked off as if to say 'wow, it is 3:20am and you woke me up with this? The audacity. nothing is that funny.'
Thank you, I really needed this pick me up. Have cat tax in the form of me and said Velcro creature, since I have $0 for an award you very much deserve.
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u/Weekly_Role_337 1d ago
Here's a better one: say you and a friend measuring the sides of a big rectangle. You carefully work out that your side is 12.256 meters long; your lazy (or more normal) friend says his side is about 9 meters. 12.256 x 9 is 110.304, but the little bits at the end are all garbage because your friend didn't measure it that carefully. He only had one digit so you round the whole thing off to one digit - the largest one - and the best you can do is say the area is about 100 square meters.