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by arlort 971 days ago
Yes, but all of that is unrelated to the original point

The commenter I replied to was complaining about weather stations not using decimals.

As you point out we can predict averages with a better accuracy, but services which have that accuracy do use decimals, where decimals aren't used is in consumer weather forecasts where an accuracy of less than 1 degree is anyway useless because

> the devil is in the small details which are inherently turbulent