MileyCyrus comments on Hearsay, Double Hearsay, and Bayesian Updates - Less Wrong

47 Post author: Mass_Driver 16 February 2012 10:31PM

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Comment author: MileyCyrus 16 February 2012 05:05:13PM 3 points [-]

100.% (with a decimal before the percent sign) would be three. 100% with no decimal is one.

Comment author: [deleted] 16 February 2012 06:00:13PM 6 points [-]

I'd consider numbers such as “100” to be ambiguous between one, two or three significant digits. As for “literally”...