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		saagarjha on May 23, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Back of the envelope estimation hacks I find it hilarious that so many people are so worked up on the rounding on the third significant figure of a number in the comments section of an article about "back of the envelope estimation hacks".

moneywoes on May 23, 2020 [–]

Guess that's engineers for you

saagarjha on May 24, 2020 | [–]

I used to think engineers would round to the nearest order of magnitude…

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