The pseudonym "Philo Vaihinger" has been abandoned. All posts have been and are written by me, Joseph Auclair.

Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Sound fishy to you?

We have a Detecto glass bathroom scale that we have used for several years.

It displays your weight to one decimal place.

I weigh myself daily, and sometimes more than once a day, though I record my weight in a spreadsheet only on Saturdays.

In my experience, if I weigh myself more than once on the same day, even no more than a few minutes apart, I never get the same weight on each try.

In my daily experience I have never got an odd digit after the decimal place, and rarely have I got one in the last digit before the decimal place.

Less, notably less, than 1 % of the time.

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