I’m not good at math, but people keep passing this chart around in reddit-logo

But I keep seeing people in the comments debating whether this is actually “impossible” or not, using stats terms I’m not familiar with. Also idk the source of this graph so maybe it’s bs.

  • ChaosMaterialist [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    4 months ago

    It’s not impossible, it’s called padding. You can get your spreadsheet software to display 5 decimal points and it will happily convert ‘51.2’ to ‘51.20000.’ If it were originally ‘51.234’ it would display ‘51.23400’

    Aka this is a nothingburger.