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Wait no this doesn't make sense. It's not an 8th decimal of a pound, it's an 8th decimal of what you're measuring. If you're measuring out a pound of Carfentanil you might be off by 0.05mg, but if you're measuring a dose you'll actually take, you won't.

It still stands that a LD50 of Carfentanil is able to be estimated away because of the change in the precision of a pound.

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