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Comment by penteract

4 years ago

This is a bit of a tangent, but while it may be conventional to round to the value with the smallest difference, is that convention good? In a case such as this where it's fine for the prescision to vary with magnitude, then I'd argue it makes sense to round to the value with the smallest ratio.

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