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1.00000000016753th
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In case you wondered how much precision is needed for colors in a browser, here's a link with way too much information: https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/too-much-color/
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Observation: that percentage is, within the limits of the number of sig figs shown, "exactly" 4/7.
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16 significant figures? I reckon that's not bad --- at least they're trying. They take a back seat to the code generated by Telerik.Reporting, though, which deems 18 to be necessary:
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TRWTF is 2O (as opposed to 20)
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The really scary thing - sometimes it actually matters! Because some browsers do rounding in different ways, so you might end up a pixel out sometimes...
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"Bullshit," he replied politely.
Addendum 2026-04-09 10:41: Seriously, the first two or three digits are meaningful . . . but by the tenth and eleventh, there is nothing in human experience that matters.
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I suppose someone out there might be routing Telerik reports to a high-precision plotter drawing on enormous sheets of paper
I still find it hard to believe they need this
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This is definitely future proofing for that Dell monitor that's on their roadmap to follow their 52" 6K2K. That 1,400" diagonal monitor with a 1,000,000,000,000K X 2K unit will be great for visualizing WTF code. Talk about retina resolution!
I'm going to need a much bigger desk to put that on, a much bigger room to put that in, and a much bigger house and yard to contain it all. Time to start browsing Zillow and saving those pennies.
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Only 16 digits of pi are required to calculate the circumference of the galaxy with an accuracy of a single hydrogen atom.
Addendum 2026-04-09 11:07: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/news/how-many-decimals-of-pi-do-we-really-need/
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Well sure, but I want it down to the planck length. So about 57 digits of pi assuming I did the math correctly - a poor assumption.
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Maybe they envisioned it being played on a digital billboard? Dunno, I got nothin'.
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Now I'm wondering what the granularity (is there a proper term?) for Superman's vision is.
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Why does it bother me so much? What's wrong with me??
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With extremely high resolution and even telescopic vision, I imagine the issue is knowing where to look. I guess the super hearing would help point him in the right direction?