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by 0xTJ 3047 days ago
328 feet is a unit conversion after already rounding to one significant figure
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This discussion reminds me of the time Apple quoted surprisingly precise weights for how much material they recovered through recycling[1]. It turned out the figures were converted from heavily rounded metric numbers.

The best part was that in the websites for some some markets they converted the very precise imperial figure back to metric and claimed something that was close to the original rounded number number but off enough to be extra weird (like 2,999 kg of silver).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11514106