Do you dive locally?
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Actually he is correct ... look up "significant figures."
Sas
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I never said I was using significant figure rules when I posted it initially and was actually going for more precision instead.
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Crush
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I am often incorrect. However, your percent local dives, if I trust my calculator, is
88.650306748466257668711656441718...%. I am not questioning the number, I am questioning how many digits it is fair to include - what is representative of the level of certainty you have in that number? With 326 dives total, 37 of which are non-local, should you state 88.6503067% of your dives are local? 88.650%? Are you certain that you not once forgot to log a dive? Or that a single dive in which you ascended early to sort something out and descended again should not have been counted as two dives? If I am 6 feet tall, should I state my height to be 183 cm, or 182.88 cm?
Sas
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I thought two was enough 
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Crush
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My apologies, I misread your post as 'decimal places', not significant digits. Two decimal places
Four digits. Perfect!
Apologies? Bah! This has been fun. I just hope the OP isn't upset about the thread being hijacked. ...
Sas
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I dive only in the cold, murky waters of New England. Proud of it, too!
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