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    Re: On potential error introduced by rounded values
    From: Peter Fogg
    Date: 2005 Jan 12, 16:55 +1100

    24.0, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3, 24.4 makes five chances of being rounded down to 24.

     

    Yep, that’s a good question. Unfortunately I don’t know the answer. It seems to be a statistical anomaly, that boys have more potential numbers than girls!

     

    It doesn’t change the argument much. One chance in five to the power of six is 0.000064, still remote. If these numbers are correct. I don’t pretend to be a statistician.

     

    In order for the maximum error of 3.0 to be achieved there must be 6 values of something.5 each.

     


    From: Craig [mailto:c.scott@earthlink.net]
    Sent: Wednesday, 12 January 2005 4:35 PM
    To: ffive@TPG.COM.AU
    Subject: RE: [NAV-L] On potential error introduced by rounded values

     

    What about rounding 24.1, 24.2, 24.3, 24.4 to 24?

     

    Craig

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Navigation Mailing List [mailto:NAVIGATION-L@LISTSERV.WEBKAHUNA.COM]On Behalf Of Peter Fogg
    Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 00:29
    To: NAVIGATION-L@LISTSERV.WEBKAHUNA.COM
    Subject: Re: [NAV-L] On potential error introduced by rounded values

    "I don't see how he has calculated that number"

     

    There are six chances that a number rounded to, say, 24, could have been rounded from: 23.5, 23.6, 23.7, 23.8, 23.9, 24.0 - so one chance in six that the number was 23.5.

       
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