On Wednesday 02 May 2007 13:39, George Herbert wrote:
99.999% of people who are told the aphelion distance of Mars to eight significant digits aren't going to use it in any fashion whatsoever, let alone use the eighth decimal place. So?
That can't possibly be true. At least 5% of the people I know closely do or have done interplanetary trajectory work.
If this is true, then it's a safe bet that the people you know don't represent a good cross-sample of the population at large.
Extrapolating from a single anecdote is rarely a good idea.