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28 October 2023 at 3:47 pm
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Dr Paul Leyland
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I can’t answer your question authoritatively but will point out that the precision of 10:47.7 and 10:47:42 differ six-fold.
If a calculated value is known only to 0.1 minutes it is often not a good idea to specify it to a precision of 1 second as that would give a false impression as to how well determined is the true value.