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From: newhand on 19 Nov 2005 14:28
Can someone confirm what is the exact meaning, in Math, of the following two
questions?

1. What's the value of the digit 4 in the number 189.064?

2. Round 13.567 to the nearest hundredth.

Thanks in advance!


From: Mark P on 19 Nov 2005 14:44
newhand wrote:
> Can someone confirm what is the exact meaning, in Math, of the following two
> questions?
>

FYI, these are off-topic here.

> 1. What's the value of the digit 4 in the number 189.064?

There is no "exact meaning in Math" to this question. My reasonable
guess would be 0.004, but you should ask for clarification from
whomever posed the question.

>
> 2. Round 13.567 to the nearest hundredth.

13.58 is the convention, though rounding is also not necessarily an
exactly defined operation.

>
> Thanks in advance!
>
>
From: Greg Comeau on 19 Nov 2005 17:52
In article <zgLff.16382$D13.4978(a)newssvr11.news.prodigy.com>,
Mark P <fall2005(a)REMOVEfall2005.CAPSfastmail.fm> wrote:
>newhand wrote:
>> Can someone confirm what is the exact meaning, in Math, of the following two
>> questions?
>
>FYI, these are off-topic here.
>
>> 1. What's the value of the digit 4 in the number 189.064?
>
>There is no "exact meaning in Math" to this question. My reasonable
>guess would be 0.004, but you should ask for clarification from
>whomever posed the question.
>
>>
>> 2. Round 13.567 to the nearest hundredth.
>
>13.58 is the convention, though rounding is also not necessarily an
>exactly defined operation.

My daughter's grade 5 math is reviewing some of these same points,
often requesting of them ambiguously as you point out, however,
that said, the answers they would want are 4 thousandths
(note the d, her 3rd grade teacher did not know that :{ ),
and 13.57 (not 13.58). This does seem OT unless there is
some underlying C++ aspect to these questions newhand?
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From: Mark P on 19 Nov 2005 23:29
Greg Comeau wrote:
> In article <zgLff.16382$D13.4978(a)newssvr11.news.prodigy.com>,
> Mark P <fall2005(a)REMOVEfall2005.CAPSfastmail.fm> wrote:
>
>>newhand wrote:
>>
>>>Can someone confirm what is the exact meaning, in Math, of the following two
>>>questions?
>>
>>FYI, these are off-topic here.
>>
>>
>>>1. What's the value of the digit 4 in the number 189.064?
>>
>>There is no "exact meaning in Math" to this question. My reasonable
>>guess would be 0.004, but you should ask for clarification from
>>whomever posed the question.
>>
>>
>>>2. Round 13.567 to the nearest hundredth.
>>
>>13.58 is the convention, though rounding is also not necessarily an
>>exactly defined operation.
>
>
> My daughter's grade 5 math is reviewing some of these same points,
> often requesting of them ambiguously as you point out, however,
> that said, the answers they would want are 4 thousandths
> (note the d, her 3rd grade teacher did not know that :{ ),
> and 13.57 (not 13.58). This does seem OT unless there is
> some underlying C++ aspect to these questions newhand?

Er, yes, 13.57 is what I meant to write.
From: cludeb on 20 Nov 2005 08:17
the value is would be called a four thousandth represented as 4/1000 in
math.

when rounding up you going to the next decimal number showing only the
specified value. example "round 13.567 to the nearest hundredth" would
become 13.57 .

since your numbers after the decimal point start at a tenth and
decrement ...eg.take the fraction value .567 this could be inturperted
as 5-tenth, 6-hundedth, 7-thousandth.

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