One concrete data point for the thread. One habit that pays for itself: post the method alongside the number. A figure without its method cannot be checked, and an unchecked figure is how this community accumulates folklore.
A narrower follow-up, since the general answer is now clear:
How long did you give it before you decided it was working?
Dr.NateNeph said:One habit that pays for itself: post the method alongside the number.
I am going to disagree with the direction of travel here. The thread has converged on the tidiest answer rather than the best-supported one, and those are not the same thing.
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Shop Reference StandardsDr.NateNeph said:One habit that pays for itself: post the method alongside the number.
That is correct as far as it goes, and here is where it stops going. Yes, and the corollary is less popular: if the reasoning holds, it also holds where it produces an answer we do not like.
Dr.NateNeph said:One habit that pays for itself: post the method alongside the number.
That reframing is the part I needed.