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Re: Motion 46: finalise interval literals



On 2013-07-17 14:06:52 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> Results may be country-based, but such a difference is strange anyway.
> 
> https://www.google.com/search?q=%22unit+in+the+last+place%22
> giving 375 000 results
> 
> https://www.google.com/search?q=%22unit+in+the+last+position%22
> giving 2 580 000 results

Wikipedia[*] and some other documents also give "unit of least precision".

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22unit+of+least+precision%22
giving 26 000 results

[*] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_in_the_last_place
which has some errors, BTW.

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