On Wed, 2 May 2007, George Herbert wrote:
I think that the number is of questionable notability. 99.9999% of the people who see it aren't going to go code up a DVD player. For anyone else, it's purely a trivial point.
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?