Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 2 days agoWhy in America is .08 the legal limit for drunk driving? How come it's not an even 0.10? Who decided at what level being drunk starts? Then 4 beers of 12oz's is 0.08 why is it that small?message-squaremessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up131arrow-down19
arrow-up122arrow-down1message-squareWhy in America is .08 the legal limit for drunk driving? How come it's not an even 0.10? Who decided at what level being drunk starts? Then 4 beers of 12oz's is 0.08 why is it that small?Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 2 days agomessage-square19fedilink
minus-squarespongebue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 day agoI mean, that’s just an issue of notation. OP could have just as easily meant 0.10 but chopped off the trailing zero out of habit.
minus-squarehowrar@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 hours agoOP actually did write 0.10, but I think it’s pretty clear from context that they meant it with one sigfig.
I mean, that’s just an issue of notation. OP could have just as easily meant 0.10 but chopped off the trailing zero out of habit.
OP actually did write 0.10, but I think it’s pretty clear from context that they meant it with one sigfig.