Post #2027461
2026-04-07 18:34 UTC
A SCARY UPDATE (if you like your data sensible)
This is actually worse than I originally depicted.
56.104 is NOT 56 miles and 104 yards.
You assume truncated 0s. So it's actually 56 miles and 1040 yards.
56.0104 is 56 miles and 104 yards.
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Replies (3)
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@prozacchiwawa@functional.cafe 2026-04-07 18:58
@leymoo it seems like they were thinking "we'll treat 10000ths as yards to make it easy to scan visually"
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@cmdrmoto@hachyderm.io 2026-04-07 19:12
@leymoo Please at least reassure me that this data comes from some place where the comma is used as decimal separator? 56,1068 would almost make sense … right until you got to the part about truncating trailing zeros. This data was recorded by a psychopath.
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@carey@mastodon.nz 2026-04-07 19:57
@leymoo Is -56.1068 less than or greater than -56.0000? This question brought to you by one of the DOS or Windows timestamps, I forget which.