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[TheBiggerFish]

<sub>"No, redundancy is repeating information in a superfluous fashion.  Superfluous is a superset to redundant.

It's because we're not going to really bother to remember the integers anyway, except for, like, weather and time and stuff like that, in casual conversation."</sub>

[kj1225]

Dave wanders about, glad to not have done an awkward.

[IamanElfCollaborator]

Kina looks confused by all the smart-person talk.

[PrivateNomad]

Dave wanders about, glad to not have done an awkward.

Dave walks by SERAS, who is now attempting to 'plug' their arm back into its socket after it fell off.

[SOLDIER First]

"Redundancy is defined as "the state of being not or no longer needed or useful". Superfluous is defined as "unnecessary, especially through being more than enough".

Esi blinks once.

"You were correct with the definition, but it remains that you used an excess of zeroes, which appeared to lead towards an infinitesmally small amount of certainty you held in your belief. This was not the case.
Neglecting to take one's time to commit facts to memory has been referred to as "an awful waste of one's dwindling brain cells" by an anonymous source and should be avoided."

[IamanElfCollaborator]

Kina looks like her own brain cells are melting from all the information.

[kj1225]

Dave wanders about, glad to not have done an awkward.

Dave walks by SERAS, who is now attempting to 'plug' their arm back into its socket after it fell off.

Dave stares uncertain of whether to help... it?

[PrivateNomad]

Eventually, they got it snapped on. Then it fell off again.

[Adragis]

Selene makes a slight exclamation and goes to check the kettle.
"Ah, I'll have your tea in a moment."
She digs a set of enamel mugs out of her bag and sets about getting the tea ready.

[kj1225]

Dave goes over and picks up the arm.

[TheBiggerFish]

_{"A statement with which I wholeheartedly agree.  However, the point remains that exceedingly bedigited numbers are, while factual, generally trivial minutiae, at which point the average human being isn't really going to need to know them.  For instance, weather reports generally round to multiples of 5 when discussing percent chances of precipitation.  While they might have more significant figures available, small differences are not really worth noting except between meteorologists and/or weather aficionados, as it's simply not very relevant to whether you'll likely need an unbrella.  Only use as many digits as your audience will need to refer back to."}

[IamanElfCollaborator]

"SO MANY COMPLICATED WORDS!"

[SOLDIER First]

"Every digit is always completely necessary."

Esi blinks at Kina.

"Am I not acting correctly human?"

[PrivateNomad]

Dave goes over and picks up the arm.

SERAS turned up to them.
"Query. I do not suppose you are a mechanic?"

[TheBiggerFish]

"SO MANY COMPLICATED WORDS!"

<sub>"Verily.

Esi, the point I'm trying to make is that they aren't completely necessary.  The difference between a 60% chance of rain and a 60.001% chance of rain is not significant enough to need to be reported differently.

And yeah, you're using too many numbers, too often.  Humans approximate and round.  We like round numbers."</sub>