<I make no claims for whether or not the reporting requirements <for some kinds of international economics documents make <much sense; that's their business.

<We're accustomed to getting into significant digit trouble <when inverting matrices - these unlucky folks have trouble <when only adding and subtracting!

<Phil Gallagher

Was it Oskar Morgenstern in On the Accuracy of Economic Observations who estimated that results of calculations of the US national debt have a level of precision at no better than the $100,000. level? I contend that statisticians and programmers have an obligation to resist pointless, misleading, and wasteful pretense of precision. Sig