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The general idea is that the answer might give the impression of being more accurate than it really is. This can be illusted by a joke of a museum caretaker who claimed that a certain dinosaur had an age of 65,000,017 years. When asked about details, he said that he was told that it was 65 million years old - but that was when he stared working 17 years earlier. The point is that the 65,000,000 years is a rough estimate, and may easily be off by several million years... so quoting the result as 65,000,017 hints at an accuracy which doesn't exist in reality. The final answer must again be rounded to millions, since one of the numbers added has that kind of (low) accuracy.

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