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| Nov 28, 2017 at 20:10 | comment | added | LSpice | As you will know because I've told you this in person, I frequently encounter students who think that $\sqrt2 \approx 1.41$ but $\sqrt2 = 1.41413562$ (since it's all the digits displayed on the calculator). | |
| Oct 21, 2016 at 5:31 | comment | added | Douglas Zare | What fraction of your students do you want to mark $1/3=0.33$ as true? There are different conventions people use, like the way mathematicians use "if" to mean "iff" in definitions like "$x$ is even if there is some integer $k$ so that $x=2k$." It's perfectly reasonable to say $1/3=0.33$ in some contexts. It looks strange because we don't usually use the $=$ sign to mean that, but others do, such as in the $f(n) = O(g(n))$ notation. | |
| S May 29, 2015 at 3:23 | history | answered | Jeff Adler | CC BY-SA 3.0 | |
| S May 29, 2015 at 3:23 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Jeff Adler |