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An immortal fumble by Androcles (19-May-2007)

Engineers and percentages

"The Ghost In The Machine" <ewill@sirius.tg00suus7038.net> wrote in message 
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: In sci.physics.relativity, Dirk Van de moortel
: <dirkvandemoortel@ThankS-NO-SperM.hotmail.com>
: wrote
: on Thu, 17 May 2007 11:54:14 GMT
: <GnX2i.182439$ln1.1250349@phobos.telenet-ops.be>:
: >
: > "Androcles" <Engineer@hogwarts.physics> wrote in message
: > news:WWW2i.22810$Ug.12199@fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
: >>
: >> "Rock Brentwood" <markwh04@yahoo.com> wrote in message
: >> news:1179395985.572883.93250@k79g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
: >> : On May 11, 7:27 pm, "Androcles" <Engin...@hogwarts.physics.co.uk>
: >> : wrote:
: >> : > The calculation of the advance of perihelion using Newtonian 
: >> : > Celestial Mechanics was
: >> : > carried out by Urbain L Verrier (1811-1877), with 43 arc seconds 
: >> : > per century unaccounted for.
: >> : >
: >> : > The so-called "anomaly" ...
: >> :
: >> : Show
: >>
: >> I'm not challenging Le Verrier, he got within
: >>
: >>                43
: >> --------------------------------  x 100 = 0.00000799494273389855719 % 
: >>            537840000
: >>
: >
: > Not
: >     0.00000799494273389855719 %
: > but
: >     0.00000799494273389855719
: > or
: >     0.000799494273389855719 %
: >
: > Even *that* you can't get right, retired retard.
: > "Electronic Engineer, Professionally"?
: >
: > Dirk Vdm
: >
:
: And people wonder why we like scientific notation. ;-)
:
: For the record,
: 43/537840000 = 7.9949 * 10^-8, approximately.
:
7.9949 * 10^-8
0.79949 * 10^-7
0.079949 * 10^-6
0.0079949 * 10^-5
0.00079949 * 10^-4
0.000079949 * 10^-3
0.0000079949 * 10^-2
0.00000079949 * 10^-1
0.000000079949 * 10^-0
0.000000079949 * 10^0
0.000000079949 * 1
0.000000079949

0.000000079949 * 100 = 0.0000079949 % 

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