Rounding up or truncation?

[jkn]

I have occasionally wondered if Benfor'ds law has anything to do with this...

Jon N

[polygonum]

I notice that link mentions the law being extended for other number bases. Binary anyone? :-)

[Matty F]

For a long time I have noticed that shops selling the numbers that you put by your gate often have the numbers 1,2, 3 missing, which are the precise numbers that I have needed for my last two houses. And all shops seem to order the wrong quantities of numbers This is because the numbers 1, 2, 3 actually occur more often in streets that have a few hundred houses in them.

I even worked out the ratios needed:

1 22 2 16 3 13 4 9 5 8 6 7 7 7 8 6 9 6 0 6

[jgharston]

It's because in the physical universe of human measurements there's no such thing as 0.5 You either have 0.50000000000000000000023489701 or something similar or 0.4999999999999999999999993462654 or something similar. So, of course, 0.5(whatever) rounds up and 0.4(whatever) rounds down.

JGH

[hognoxious]

On Sep 20, 1:44=A0pm, polygonum wrote: ...

Holes aren't.

[dave]

Or in fact, anything travelling very quickly indeed!

[dennis]

If you are talking about near light speed you should note that a recent LHC experiment may prove Einstein to be wrong. Who said you can't change the (written) laws of physics? Some question about the event being seen before it happened.

[Martin Bonner]

Actually, they will be heavier but shorter (in the direction of travel).

... and ignore any assertions that Relativity has been overturned: a) The scientists are almost certain they have made a mistake; b) even if Relativity is wrong, we know from experiment that fast moving objects are heavier, and I'm pretty sure we know they are shorter too.

[djc]

It will never be wrong, just possibly necessary in some very specialised case to use a more accurate theory.

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

I don't know of many short, fat sprinters.