By contrast, UBS calculated the figure to three decimal places and regularly changed its rates.
Ratings ties are not uncommon, but those that persist even to three decimal points certainly are.
Last night's audience - to three decimal places - of 2.371 million means there was only 9,000 viewers in it.
(When you work out the percentage score to three decimal places, it was MITT BEATS RICK, 24.551 24.544).
These days, he says, they can be traded and their prices discovered electronically down to three decimal places.
"There are scrap armament dealers there who can quote you the international price of metal to three decimal places," he said.
The pain for the Chinese was doubled by the fact their time was equal to Canada's on hundredths of seconds but slightly slower over three decimal places.
The result of a mathematical calculation, for example, need not always be calculated precisely an accuracy of two or three decimal places is often enough.
Because f(16) is 4, it follows that f(17), or √17, is approximately 4.125, the actual value being 4.123 to three decimal places.
The computer stored numbers to an accuracy of six decimal places, like 0.506127, while, to save space, the printout of results shortened the numbers to three decimal places, 0.506.
Nirav and Anish were in Advanced Placement classes and maintained impressive averages, but felt they were less devoutly competitive than many classmates, who worried about every fraction of their grade averages, calculated to three decimal places.
