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Apologies - Apologies to all

Golddigger7		Posted : Thursday, 1 November 2012 3:51:03 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Medals: Groups: Registered Joined: 6/09/2012(UTC) Posts: 252 Thanks: 1 times Was thanked: 46 time(s) in 35 post(s)		Wow, havnt some of the topics gone pear shaped and bent outta shape. I for one would like to apologise to everyone concerned for any part that I played in them. People have now got unfocused on what were here doing, which is discussing gold mining and mining equipment, so here I go again, my apologies to everyone. Regards Golddigger7

overdog		Posted : Thursday, 1 November 2012 3:55:10 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Medals: Groups: Registered Joined: 2/03/2010(UTC) Posts: 418 Location: nelson Thanks: 69 times Was thanked: 82 time(s) in 68 post(s)		Well said that man. Case closed.

gavin		Posted : Thursday, 1 November 2012 6:55:36 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Administrators, Registered Joined: 20/02/2010(UTC) Posts: 1,326 Location: Christchurch Thanks: 736 times Was thanked: 535 time(s) in 287 post(s)		Good on ya mate :) Already forgotten.
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rgmcbrid		Posted : Thursday, 1 November 2012 7:40:11 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Registered Joined: 3/06/2010(UTC) Posts: 583 Location: Southland Thanks: 23 times Was thanked: 180 time(s) in 140 post(s)		Wow, a big piss fest and I missed it! I went back and read some of it and I got bored. I will comment on Golddigger7’s comment about numbers: Yes it is proper to have a zero in front of the decimal for numbers less than one for clarity. However you should be aware that the number 0f digits after the decimal is much more important in that they imply accuracy. For example 0.1 and 0.100 are not the same thing, while the first implies accuracy to the tenth the second number implies accuracy the one thousandth. Although your scale may measure to the thousandth place, it might be plus or minus 0.005 (you would have to read the manual and it would have to be adjusted properly) in which case you would not list a 0.1 nugget as 0.100. To be exact you would list it as 0.10
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gingerbreadman		Posted : Thursday, 1 November 2012 7:55:55 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Registered Joined: 19/07/2010(UTC) Posts: 473 Location: south of the black stump Thanks: 34 times Was thanked: 96 time(s) in 74 post(s)		Originally Posted by: rgmcbrid Wow, a big piss fest and I missed it! I went back and read some of it and I got bored. I will comment on Golddigger7’s comment about numbers: Yes it is proper to have a zero in front of the decimal for numbers less than one for clarity. However you should be aware that the number 0f digits after the decimal is much more important in that they imply accuracy. For example 0.1 and 0.100 are not the same thing, while the first implies accuracy to the tenth the second number implies accuracy the one thousandth. Although your scale may measure to the thousandth place, it might be plus or minus 0.005 (you would have to read the manual and it would have to be adjusted properly) in which case you would not list a 0.1 nugget as 0.100. To be exact you would list it as 0.10 Thats not much of an my apologie birdy all your doing is going over and over what has already been suggested...iv had enough of it im sure others have as well.

rgmcbrid		Posted : Thursday, 1 November 2012 11:35:45 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Registered Joined: 3/06/2010(UTC) Posts: 583 Location: Southland Thanks: 23 times Was thanked: 180 time(s) in 140 post(s)		Well Ginger I wasn't apologizing since I wasn't involved in the thread and if what I posted above repeated something that was already said I must have missed it. Or it was deleted. Had I known that was what you were pissing about I would not have brought it up, from what I did read I thought the fracas had to do with he price of nuggets not the intricacies of report reporting measurements. I am going back to the friendly detector section now and see what people have been digging up. Have a nice day.
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Lammerlaw		Posted : Friday, 2 November 2012 12:32:18 AM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Registered Joined: 24/05/2011(UTC) Posts: 1,721 Thanks: 72 times Was thanked: 579 time(s) in 396 post(s)		Originally Posted by: gingerbreadman Originally Posted by: rgmcbrid Wow, a big piss fest and I missed it! I went back and read some of it and I got bored. I will comment on Golddigger7’s comment about numbers: Yes it is proper to have a zero in front of the decimal for numbers less than one for clarity. However you should be aware that the number 0f digits after the decimal is much more important in that they imply accuracy. For example 0.1 and 0.100 are not the same thing, while the first implies accuracy to the tenth the second number implies accuracy the one thousandth. Although your scale may measure to the thousandth place, it might be plus or minus 0.005 (you would have to read the manual and it would have to be adjusted properly) in which case you would not list a 0.1 nugget as 0.100. To be exact you would list it as 0.10 Thats not much of an my apologie birdy all your doing is going over and over what has already been suggested...iv had enough of it im sure others have as well. totally agree - it is finished.