hanadr
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those of us who are numerate and possessed of a calculator, abacus,slide-rule or knowledge of logarithms or multiplication tables, can make calculations to pretty much infinite degrees of accuracy and many deccimal places. It's not however a sensible thing to do with calculating the carbs in food.
The reasons are: the composition of any food varies from portion to portion.
We can weigh foods with very limited accuracy [Most kitchen scales are no more accurate than the nearest 2 grams, if that]
Thus working to an estimate of the nearest 2 grams of carb is probably as accurate as we can realistically be. Decimal fractions of grams of carb are unlikely to be accurate , thus are pointless. Rounding up or down to the nearest whole number will be good enough for anyone's purpose.
Hana
The reasons are: the composition of any food varies from portion to portion.
We can weigh foods with very limited accuracy [Most kitchen scales are no more accurate than the nearest 2 grams, if that]
Thus working to an estimate of the nearest 2 grams of carb is probably as accurate as we can realistically be. Decimal fractions of grams of carb are unlikely to be accurate , thus are pointless. Rounding up or down to the nearest whole number will be good enough for anyone's purpose.
Hana