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* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_films#Worldwide_highest-grossing_films Film box office figures]] (specially for recent productions) only lack cents to be more precise.
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** Injuries, maybe, or else the percentage chance that a person will expire from not-instantly-lethal wounds.
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** Injuries, maybe, or else the percentage chance that a person will expire from not-instantly-lethal wounds. wounds.
** Actually, it only implies a floating-point number is used to store the kill counter for whatever reason and that the HUD is configured to display it with one decimal precision, possibly by default. It is entirely plausible that the Terminators' OS would handle all real numbers this way.
** Actually, it only implies a floating-point number is used to store the kill counter for whatever reason and that the HUD is configured to display it with one decimal precision, possibly by default. It is entirely plausible that the Terminators' OS would handle all real numbers this way.
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** Justified in universe in that the difference between 'about five minutes' and 'two hundred ningety three point two seconds' is the difference between missile defence hitting an incoming missile and your ship turning into expanding plasma.
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* Pokédex entries in {{Pokémon}} are known for this. Instead of making up new measures for some of the Pokémon, the localizers decided to simply convert the metric to imperial, resulting in all small Pokémon being lumped into measurements of either 4 inches, 8 inches, 1 foot, 1 foot 4 inches, etc.
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* Pokédex entries in {{Pokémon}} [[{{Pokemon}} Pokémon]] are known for this. Instead of making up new measures for some of the Pokémon, the localizers decided to simply convert the metric to imperial, resulting in all small Pokémon being lumped into measurements of either 4 inches, 8 inches, 1 foot, 1 foot 4 inches, etc.
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* Pokédex entries in {{Pokémon}} are known for this. Instead of making up new measures for some of the Pokémon, the localizers decided to simply convert the metric to imperial, resulting in all small Pokémon being lumped into measurements of either 4 inches, 8 inches, 1 foot, 1 foot 4 inches, etc.
** And in the case of temperature: "Regice cloaks itself with frigid air of negative 328 degrees Fahrenheit." In Japan, it's -200 degrees Celsius.
** And in the case of temperature: "Regice cloaks itself with frigid air of negative 328 degrees Fahrenheit." In Japan, it's -200 degrees Celsius.
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*** Well, it resulted in water's melting point being pretty much exactly 32 degrees, so we're okay with it.
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* Sprint times in professional sports are frequently measured to thousandths of a second by stopwatches operated by human hands--which are not precise to such small degrees. Worse, differences of a few thousandths or even hundredths of a second in dash times are often touted as being very significant, when, practically, differences of less than a tenth of a second in distance dashes are close to no difference at all.
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-->'''C-3PO''': Sir, the odds of successfully navigating an asteroid field is approximately three-thousand-seven-hundred-twenty to one!
-->'''Han Solo''': [[NeverTellMeTheOdds Never tell me the odds]]!
--->--''StarWars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back''
-->'''Han Solo''': [[NeverTellMeTheOdds Never tell me the odds]]!
--->--''StarWars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back''
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Another general tendency in real life is that few know the rules of precision. For example, if the diameter of the circle is 3 meters, then the circumference is 9 meters. Not 9.4247796. Because you have to keep the lowest precision from all the entries.
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* Yuki Nagato from the ''HaruhiSuzumiya'' series, who is a [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots ridiculously human alien]]. Probably the prime example of her ludicrous precision is the Endless Eight arc, where she breathlessly tells the rest of the SOS Brigade exactly how many times the past two weeks have [[GroundhogDayLoop looped]] and ''how many times certain events did or didn't happen during these loops.''
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* Yuki Nagato from the ''HaruhiSuzumiya'' series, who is a [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots ridiculously human alien]]. Probably the prime example of her ludicrous precision is the Endless Eight arc, where she breathlessly tells the rest of the SOS Brigade exactly how many times the past two weeks have [[GroundhogDayLoop looped]] (Which is ''thousands'' of times, mind you) and ''how many times certain events did or didn't happen during these loops.''
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* [[SuzumiyaHaruhi Yu]][[BadassBookworm ki]] [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness Na]][[RidiculouslyHumanRobots ga]][[TheStoic to]].
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* [[SuzumiyaHaruhi Yu]][[BadassBookworm ki]] [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness Na]][[RidiculouslyHumanRobots ga]][[TheStoic to]].Yuki Nagato from the ''HaruhiSuzumiya'' series, who is a [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots ridiculously human alien]]. Probably the prime example of her ludicrous precision is the Endless Eight arc, where she breathlessly tells the rest of the SOS Brigade exactly how many times the past two weeks have [[GroundhogDayLoop looped]] and ''how many times certain events did or didn't happen during these loops.''
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* This is J. Jonah Jameson's gimmick in ''[[TheSpectacularSpiderMan The Spectacular Spider-Man]]''. "I want that report in 18 seconds!"
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---> '''MCP:''' There's a 68.71 percent chance you're right.
---> '''Dillinger:''' Cute.
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* C-3PO in the ''StarWars'' movies, of course.
--> '''C-3PO:''' Sir, the possibility of successfully navigating an asteroid field is approximately 3,720 to 1.
--> '''Han Solo:''' Never tell me the odds.
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* Played with in ''SylvieAndBruno'', when Bruno estimates that there are "about a thousand and four" sheep in the field outside. When told he can't possibly be sure about the "four" part, he insists that that's the ''only'' part he's sure about--there are four sheep right under the window, but he can't be nearly as precise about how many are in the rest of the field.
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* Played with in ''SylvieAndBruno'', when Bruno estimates that there are "about a thousand and four" sheep pigs in the field outside. When told he can't possibly be sure about the "four" part, he insists that that's the ''only'' part he's sure about--there are four sheep pigs right under the window, but he can't be nearly as precise about how many are in the rest of the field.
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* Used in [[CanonDiscontinuity at least one version]] of the ''HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''. Justified by RuleOfFunny, and in particular in this case by coming from the OmniscientNarrator.
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* Used in [[CanonDiscontinuity at least one version]] of the ''HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''. Justified by RuleOfFunny, and in particular in this case by coming from the OmniscientNarrator.
--> Many stories are told of Zaphod Beeblebrox's journey to the Frogstar. Ten percent of them are ninety-five percent true, fourteen percent of them are sixty-five percent true, thirty-five percent of them are only five percent true, and all the rest of them are told by Zaphod Beeblebrox.
--> Many stories are told of Zaphod Beeblebrox's journey to the Frogstar. Ten percent of them are ninety-five percent true, fourteen percent of them are sixty-five percent true, thirty-five percent of them are only five percent true, and all the rest of them are told by Zaphod Beeblebrox.
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** Injuries, maybe, or else the percentage chance that a person will expire from not-instantly-lethal wounds.
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** Often, this creates a metafallacy, in which the error term of "3%" is treated as an exact amount; if the candidates are separated by 2.9%, it's falsely referred to as a "statistical tie", while a lead of 3.1% is magically transformed into a certainty. In reality, if the margin of error is 3%, and Candidate A is up 2%, then we can say with 80% confidence that Candidate A really is winning.
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** Often, this creates a metafallacy, in which the error term of "3%" is treated as an exact amount; if the candidates are separated by 2.9%, it's falsely referred to as a "statistical tie", while a lead of 3.1% is magically transformed into a certainty. In reality, if the margin of error is 3%, and Candidate A is up 2%, then we can say with 80% confidence that Candidate A really is winning.
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** That'd probably account for two lost limbs, or maybe unconcious with minor to no lasting damage. In other words, perfect for interrogation.
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** That'd probably account for two lost limbs, or maybe unconcious with minor to no lasting damage. In other words, perfect for interrogation.
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** Hull Integrity from {{Enterprise}} was one of the signs that the show was just the old shows with new words. Hull Integrity was just their replacement word for shields, which would lead to the ship being just fine [[CriticalExistenceFailure until ship would hit 0%.]]
** Bashir became insufferable for this after it was revealed he was genetically engineered. Even his actor hated it. Most notably, he provides the likelihood of the success of the Dominion in the Dominion War to two decimal places. For reference, the Dominion War was a massive conflict involving four of the most powerful organizations in the galaxy.
** Bashir became insufferable for this after it was revealed he was genetically engineered. Even his actor hated it. Most notably, he provides the likelihood of the success of the Dominion in the Dominion War to two decimal places. For reference, the Dominion War was a massive conflict involving four of the most powerful organizations in the galaxy.
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* Played with in ''SylvieAndBruno'', when Bruno estimates that there are "about a thousand and four" sheep in the field outside. When told he can't possibly be sure about the "four" part, he insists that that's the ''only'' part he's sure about--there are four sheep right under the window, but he can't be nearly as precise about how many are in the rest of the field.
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**The funny thing is, in table top games, one often can calculate the odds of success to a very high precision (though its still not perfect since even well made dice have slight imperfections.)
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** Averted in TNG with Data who started off doing this with travel times but stopped when it was made clear that giving the time down to the tenth of a second was never going to be needed.
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** Also lampshaded by Paris in ''Imperfection:''
-->'''Tuvok:''' I have isolated a section which contains the bodies of approximately 37 Borg drones.
-->'''Paris:''' Thirty-seven doesn't sound very approximate to me.
-->'''Tuvok:''' I have isolated a section which contains the bodies of approximately 37 Borg drones.
-->'''Paris:''' Thirty-seven doesn't sound very approximate to me.
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-->'''Tuvok:''' I have isolated"Imperfection". Tuvok scans a section which contains destroyed Borg Cube and announces the bodies presence of approximately 37 Borg drones.
-->'''Paris:''' Thirty-seven doesn'tdrones. Paris immediately states that such an even number does not sound very approximate like an approximation. Tuvok then has to me.clarify that he's not counting bodies, but ''body parts''.
-->'''Tuvok:''' I have isolated
-->'''Paris:''' Thirty-seven doesn't
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* The {{narrator}} in ''PushingDaisies'' always does this when giving the age of a character.
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* Lampshaded in SpaceQuest 6:
-->'''Computer:''' "Once the Divalium crystal has been repaired, our electrical system re-established, and the engines fired, I am 97.2 percent certain [that the spacecraft can continue on its way]."
-->'''Roger Wilco:''' "Why only 97.2 percent?"
-->'''Computer:''' "I judged 97.2 to sound more hip to our audience than would 100. You would have to mention it."
-->'''Roger Wilco:''' "Sorry"
-->'''Computer:''' "Don't apologize to me. It's the players you ruined it for."
-->'''Computer:''' "Once the Divalium crystal has been repaired, our electrical system re-established, and the engines fired, I am 97.2 percent certain [that the spacecraft can continue on its way]."
-->'''Roger Wilco:''' "Why only 97.2 percent?"
-->'''Computer:''' "I judged 97.2 to sound more hip to our audience than would 100. You would have to mention it."
-->'''Roger Wilco:''' "Sorry"
-->'''Computer:''' "Don't apologize to me. It's the players you ruined it for."
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* Recently, Greg Pak likes to demonstrate [[{{TheIncredibleHulk}} Bruce Banner's]] intelligence by having him spout random math problems and ridiculously precise probabilities in his speech.
-->"From the beginning, I figured there was an 83.7 percent chance that during the course of the battle, I'd turn back into the Hulk."
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* Recently, Greg Pak likes to demonstrate [[{{TheIncredibleHulk}} Bruce Banner's]] intelligence by having him spout random math problems and ridiculously precise probabilities in his speech.
-->"From the beginning, I figured there was an 83.7 percent chance that during the course of the battle, I'd turn back into the Hulk."
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** And Fahrenheit should have been 100 degrees but Mrs. Fahrenheit was rather unwell. And pregnant.
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* Spencer Reid in ''CriminalMinds'' does this all the time, much to his teammates' annoyance.
