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unusual facts about truncation


Vancouver Stock Exchange

In January 1982 the index was initialized at 1000 and subsequently updated and truncated to three decimal places on each trade.


2013 KNSB Dutch Super Sprint Championships

Points are calculated to three decimal places and truncation is applied; the numbers are not rounded.

California State Route 14

Route 14 was part of U.S. Route 6 prior to truncation in 1964, when U.S. 6 was a coast-to-coast route from Long Beach to Provincetown, Massachusetts.

JIRA

The product name, JIRA, is not an acronym but rather a truncation of "Gojira", the Japanese name for Godzilla.

Palmerston North–Gisborne Line

On 8 March 1988, Cyclone Bola significantly damaged the line between Napier and Gisborne, resulting in the truncation of the Endeavour to Napier.


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