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It seems that sig figs will haunt me all my life. And to every teacher/prof the rules are different for adding/subtracting and multiplying.
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Sig figs
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Fortunately in Physics you're pretty safe just chopping off the decimals
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Yeah, I can't really do that in medicine. Could kill someone I guess......Really really lame though. Ever since I set foot in Chem and most of my points off come from a wrong number of sig figs. Tomorrow I have the Pharmaceutics test (math).
There goes my grade.
There goes my grade.
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soon it will be six figs
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NASA only needed like 6 digits of Pi to send people to the moon
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Now you got me craving for Newton Figs...Doc wrote:soon it will be six figs
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