Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Tue Jun 28 07:57:18 EDT 2011

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On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 9:47 PM, Mel <mwilson at the-wire.com> wrote:
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> By convention, nobody ever talks about 1 x 9.97^6 .

Unless you're a British politician of indeterminate party
allegiance.... famous line, quoted as #6 in here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/7309332/The-ten-funniest-ever-Yes-Minister-moments.html

But, that would presumably have three sig figs.

ChrisA

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