What Do All Those Zeros Really Mean?

What I get a chuckle out of are the the news releases where they will give quantity in metric measure with zero significant digits and in parentheses give the English value to three decimal places.
 
I've always taken the attitude that each and every one of us can use the number of zeros that we prefer, but I can see Cactus Farmer's point as well. Myself, I simply ignore the extra zeros on my DRO and when reading something in print, and I typically only use three places after the decimal when writing down measurements.

When it comes to my paycheck, on the other hand, I often wish there were more zeros thrown in just ahead of the decimal point!
 
Wife worked with a guy that got a .001 of a cent raise per year, He posted His paycheck on bulletin board at work to prove it. Company policy said everyone HAD to get a raise every year, did not say how much.
 
We bend sheetmetal to a .001 tolerance, I am still amazed at watching the benders on a brake use a dial/digital calipers for validating bend lengths. Tim
 
RJSakowski said:
What I get a chuckle out of are the the news releases where they will give quantity in metric measure with zero significant digits and in parentheses give the English value to three decimal places.
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When calculators got cheap!!!!!!.I can remember times when you had to convert dollars to,lets say,pounds a cent was precise enough even for much money.
 
One of my collage professors worked for Cincinnati-Milacron years ago as lead engineer. He told the class he had to get on junior engineers for marking pipe hanger hole locations to a +/-.000. Designers get in the habit of marking all their dimensions +/- .000.
 
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