Implicature of the day (opens in new tab)

Today's xkcd: Mouseover title: "They rounded down to 182.8 instead of rounding up to 182.9 because 182.9 might make the statement incorrect." The cited statement is clearly a violation of the Maxim of Quantity. But I don't think I've ever seen a discussion of the pragmatic inference from over-exact numbers to conversion of units, or […]