[TontoKowalski]

Oh no. Not significant digits! Yuck. I suppose since the area is specified with 0 decimal places, we should assume no rounding right? :)

My son the engineer and I have almost come to blows over this issue.

For a problem involving 2 significant digits, he would restate a length of 12,247 units as 12,000, and he would restate a length of one unit as 1.0.

I view this approach as indefensible in practical problem solving in matters such as baby blankets.

[mmichaels1970]

I view this approach as indefensible in practical problem solving in matters such as baby blankets.

I concur. Same goes for installing ceramic floor tiles.