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    Neil deGrasse Tyson‏Verified account @neiltyson 10 Jul 2012

    If baseball reported averages to 4 decimal places instead of 3, then a three-hundred hitter would be batting "three thousand"

    5:00 PM - 10 Jul 2012
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      1. Jeffrey Vagle‏Verified account @jvagle 10 Jul 2012
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        @neiltyson What would happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at .9c? http://what-if.xkcd.com/1/ 

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      1. Justin Crisostomo‏ @jsos 10 Jul 2012
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        @neiltyson what baseball needs to stop doing is calling "7 1/3" innings pitches as "7.1" innings

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      1. Erikk‏ @erikk38 13 Jul 2012
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        @neiltyson Do you feel like this is your role, as some Shakespearean clown named Science? Do you feel like we elected you to this role?

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      1. William Abrahamson‏ @Billthewineguy 13 Jul 2012
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        @neiltyson Great idea. The concept will spread to wines as I await Parker's first thousand point beauty.

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      1. Nathan Krawitz‏ @mockingbird_13 11 Jul 2012
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        @neiltyson Sure. "300" is short for 300 thousandths, so the extra decimal would be 3000 ten-thousandths. A little awkward, but it works.

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      1. Jason Prosek‏ @JasonProsek 10 Jul 2012
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        @neiltyson 162 games, ~700 at bats, they actually got sig figs right!

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      1. Joshua Gross‏ @JoshuaGrossBC 10 Jul 2012
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        .@neiltyson realize it's a joke, still going to refer to this as "the time I got to call out Neil Tyson on Twitter about significant digits"

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      1. Dixon Robertson‏ @wdrlaw 10 Jul 2012
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        @neiltyson You spend too much time listening to Tim McCarver.

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      1. Paul Ferris‏ @Seventhwheel 10 Jul 2012
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        @neiltyson Suck on that Ted Williams!!!

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      1. just B‏ @briansantacruz 10 Jul 2012
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        @neiltyson dude, you're overthinking it...

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      1. Mahesh Phadke‏ @maheshphadke 10 Jul 2012
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        The great @neiltyson is taking a dump on MLB.

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      1. Mahesh Phadke‏ @maheshphadke 10 Jul 2012
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        RT @neiltyson If baseball reported averages to 4 decimal places instead of 3, then a three-hundred hitter would be batting "three thousand"

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      1. Jason‏ @bigfunnybones 10 Jul 2012
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        @neiltyson either way, he still hits 30%.

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      1. Eoin Reinhardt‏ @ReinDog6 10 Jul 2012
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        @neiltyson Should they not change it to a three-hundredth hitter??

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      1. Chris‏ @Chrisp_707 10 Jul 2012
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        @neiltyson yea but it would be 3000 out if 10000 right?

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      1. Abe Seeman‏ @midtowner33 10 Jul 2012
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        @neiltyson Nice avg, met you outside Grand Ctrl near pitching machine at All Star Game celebration with my son few yrs ago Neil.

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      1. Benjamin.Maloney‏ @BMaloneyAFT 10 Jul 2012
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        @neiltyson .............

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      1. Me-me‏ @meencantalapina 10 Jul 2012
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        @neiltyson You mean three thousand millionths!

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