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  • February 26, 2014 at 6:20 am

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    How precise is the data supposed to be? I've dabbled a bit with post code stuff myself and some postcodes only differ at the fourth decimal place. For example EN11 9FP has a latitude of 51.77572N and EN11 9FQ has a latitude of 51.77557N. If you're not careful the closest match might not be the right place.

    On two occasions I have been asked, "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
    —Charles Babbage, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

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