XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.microsoft.windows   
   From: ithinkiam@gmail.com   
      
   Jeff Liebermann  wrote:   
   >   
   > I can't determine if either company has a reason to have a longer   
   > Lat/Long.  However, notice the number of digits in the Lat, which are   
   > mostly zeros, except for the last digit:   
   >   Latitude: 32.459438320000004   
   > I don't know what they're doing, but it looks like they're using the   
   > Latitude to store some kind of data or ID.  There are several other   
   > entries in the data that show a similar pattern of 8 places to the   
   > right of the decimal point for useful data followed by 6 zeros and 1   
   > numeric digit.   
      
   These are from loss of precision in the storing of floating-point numbers   
   in python. They aren't real. The source data will not include all the   
   zeros.   
      
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