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nkrisc 5 hours ago

What does “5 sigma precision equals 3” mean?

magicalhippo 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

=3 is a cat face[1] smiley, the period preceding it ends the sentence.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons

Joel_Mckay 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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nkrisc 5 hours ago | parent [-]

It was a serious question but I see I should not expect an answer.

throawayonthe 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

not sure if you're joking but it's an emoticon:

=3

look at it like a sideways face of a cartoon cat, with 3 being the mouth shape

so their actual sentence ends at the period

nkrisc 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Ok, I see it now. I thought the period was a typo and they were trying to write some sort of expression.

I still don’t understand why the emoticon is there or its purpose but whatever.

Joel_Mckay 4 hours ago | parent [-]

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Cheers =3

nkrisc 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I don’t have autism, but thanks. Ending a (every, apparently) comment with “=3” is not normal so I mistook its meaning.

	▲	magicalhippo 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Apparently there's a lot of dogs[1] that like to pretend they're cats. I just roll with it. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_...

tux3 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Please stop jumping to conclusions about what diagnoses you think other people have.

That is not helping.

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