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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

chatting with a couple of friends about spurious accuracy and one of them sent:

"A friend's father used to design TV transmitting antennas. They had to be accurate because any swr was a huge reflected power to dissipate. He knew pi to 27 decimal places."

that just breaks my brain

XKCD cartoon on "What the number of digits in your coordinates means"