In 1935 (the year before the Berlin Olympics), Jesse Owens set the world record in the long jump with a leap of 26 ft 8 in, and this record would stand for 25 years (a very rare length of time for a track and field record), until it was finally broken by Ralph Boston in 1960.
The rank-size rule (or rank-size distribution) of city populations, is a commonly observed statistical relationship between the population sizes and population ranks of a nationâs cities.
Rule 1 (b): The digit representing the smallest measured scale division must be explicitly written, even if it is a zero. Rule 1 (c): Rounding. Parts (a) and (b) of this rule tell you how to discard insignificant digits, a process called truncating.