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Date: Friday, 22 August 2008 16:16 (UTC)truly they need to provide the statistical precision of their measurements - you may actually have a legitimate case to claim to them of mislabeling
and i need to read more thoroughly before commenting!
i recall once a friend had me realize how meaningless all the digits of pi really are when you consider the scale as you have done here, in most cases only a few digits are really meaningful at all (and perhaps explains how fractional approximations were acceptable enough in antiquity)