(This came up on Square One TV when I was a kid Months typically have four seven-day weeks, plus a few days extra It is very tempting to round down and just say "one month = four weeks" But if you do that for the whole year, you've cheated someone out of 4 weeks out of 52)
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Manipulation of rounding has consequences on Wall Street and elsewhere. Another piece for your reading pleasure. It's quite short. A nice little quote for ya: "Rounding necessarily results in a reduction of precision and the technique used can bias data when applied repeatedly.
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Yes, and it's an issue because rounding is inevitable and necessary It's exactly what I was talking about when I said "Sometimes 2+2=5" ("Both of these are two pounds, what's the big deal" "PUT THEM BOTH ON THE SCALE TOGETHER AND WE'LL SEE")
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