Recently I've been playing around with a quarter-order-of-magnitude system for simple calculations. It gives better precision than single sig-fig calculations using only four, very intuitive, symbols. blog.alexalemi.com/quarters.html
Alex Alemi
@alemi
Machine Learning Researcher
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