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Offline Jim

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xkcd 2170
« on: July 02, 2019, 07:53:42 pm »

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Re: xkcd 2170
« Reply #1 on: July 02, 2019, 08:02:00 pm »
I'm sure I'm not the only one who figured out where that is when they read it.  The middle of the rocket garden at Kennedy Space Center's main visitor center.

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Re: xkcd 2170
« Reply #2 on: July 02, 2019, 10:29:13 pm »
17 significant digits. Raw floating point sounds legit.
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Re: xkcd 2170
« Reply #3 on: July 06, 2019, 10:47:58 pm »
The digits after the fifth one for each coordinate are decimal places for e (after the 2.) and pi (after 3.1), respectively.