The Web Is Not the Internet

pigrabbitbear writes with this rant from Motherboard.vice.com: "The Internet and the World Wide Web are not the same thing. They're not synonyms. They don't even serve the same function. And, just like how England is in the United Kingdom, but the United Kingdom isn't England, getting the distinction wrong means you can inadvertently sound like a dummy. Most of the time they can be used synonymously and no one will care, but if you're talking about history or technical stuff and you want to be accurate or a know-it-all or beat a computer at Jeopardy, you should know the difference. The Web was born at CERN in 1990, as a specific, visual protocol on the Internet, the global network of computers that began two decades earlier."

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Re:And 2+2=4

[Dishevel]

So by your logic 2.6 + 2.6 can only be.
2.6 + 2.6 = 5.2
or
3 + 3 = 6
One must not blindly follow rules because they are there.
2.8 is a very high value of 2 not a low value of 3.
Rounding should be used where appropriate.
Try real hard not to start rounding when you are adding lots of shit up. You can introduce some very large errors.
2.9 + 2.9 is either 5.8 or 6
If you begin rounding during the calculations instead of at reporting the more calculations you do the more inaccurate your total can become.
It can become much more inaccurate than if you round only at the end.
But what ever makes you feel good about yourself.