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by sashagim 89 days ago
Interesting notion, but how do you know it's 13.6 and not 13.600?
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By convention if it was 13.600 they would present it as 13.600 not 13.6. If I remember correctly Everest was first surveyed as 29000 feet tall and they changed it arbitrarily to 29002 to avoid the apparent imprecision!