RE: Dear stupid: how many times does the earth rotate in a year?
June 24, 2016 at 10:08 am
(This post was last modified: June 24, 2016 at 10:10 am by GrandizerII.)
(June 24, 2016 at 8:45 am)Sheed1980 Wrote:(June 23, 2016 at 7:17 pm)Irrational Wrote: You're not reading anything correctly. I visited a few of the links you posted, and none of them say 71.11. You are saying it, and I know why you have to add a .11 to the number. Because without that, your argument means shit. Well, it already is anyway.
So would it make u feel better if I said 71%? I mean with the calculation the 71.11% is not even 1/5 of 1% difference(.20). Actually it's just barely over 1/10 of 1% difference(.10). So rounding to the nearest whole percent I have no problem saying approximately 71%. Because the 71.11% is just barely higher than 71% itself. So my argument definitely stands and still has support as true. Just a portion of 1% higher
It's not exactly 71.11%. That it's rounded does not mean it must be 71.11% when not rounded. This means either you lied when you said science proved the exact figures, or you are just dumb.
And, yeah, that makes a lot of difference between exact and approximate regardless of the magnitude of difference. Why? Because approximately 71% could mean a margin of error of +- 0.5% or +- 2% (for example). With exact numbers, because they're supposed to be exact, then if the number doesn't turn out exactly to be as argued, then the claim is exactly wrong.