Emile comments on 2011 Survey Results - Less Wrong

94 Post author: Yvain 05 December 2011 10:49AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 05 December 2011 06:41:35PM *  4 points [-]

The point is not having to type lots of zeros (or of nines) with extreme probabilities (so that people won't weasel out and use ‘epsilon’); having to type 1:999999999999999 is no improvement over having to type 0.000000000000001.

Comment author: Emile 05 December 2011 08:24:00PM *  0 points [-]

Just type 1:1e15 (or 1e-15 if you don't want odd ratios).