(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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(That particular example, even though you'd think it's a fucking obvious one, is one that's been used to fuck over uneducated people in the wild before Hence you always count the number of weeks in a year by dividing 365 / 7 = 52 plus a day, not by adding up the months)
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Deep down he actually knows this and, much like some folks on Wall Street playing with rounding, he’s doing it with an agenda.
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There is no Wall Street scandal that resulted from people rounding numbers up instead of down, you don't understand what you're talking about and are not qualified to discuss it
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I said nothing about rounding up or down, just rounding. But in fact rounding up has been a problem. And then you speak of qualifications...! Quite the multilayered gaslighting operation you've got going. One quick example for your reference:https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/22/sec-investigates-whether-companies-round-up-earnings.html …
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Well that's a fun fact I didn't know, and that I kind of doubt you knew until you googled it just now to own me What of it
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Note that this fun paper - which is indeed a cool paper - jokes about the term "quadrophobia", fear of the number four It is arguing that earnings reports improperly round up rather than down when the digit in question is 4, rather than 5 or higher
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It does NOT say that the SEC should ban the concept of rounding altogether in earnings reports and they should be printed with as many significant digits as the paper will hold Because that's absurd
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Neither did I specifically say that. You're misrepresenting. You denied manipulation of rounding on Wall Street, I just gave you an example of it. Whether or not the SEC bans it is irrelevant. Accept that you were wrong instead of arguing for alternative meaning (like 2+2=5).
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Yeah I said I didn't know about that It's a fun little story, it seems unlikely to come to anything unfortunately because it's so difficult to prove It's also a demonstration of my point, not a refutation of it
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I mean the point of the article is that sometimes 2+2 should equal 5 (when the sum of the mantissa being rounded off both numbers is higher than 5) Sometimes it shouldn't Companies are exploiting the edge case between should and shouldn't
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Your other article cheekily argues we could avoid this situation entirely if we made it a rule to always round down (truncate) It then goes on to point out that there are obvious real world cases where doing this is perverse
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