• Significant figures, also referred to as significant digits or sig figs, are specific digits within a number written in positional notation that carry...
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  • Significant Figures: The Lives and Work of Great Mathematicians is a 2017 nonfiction book by British mathematician Ian Stewart FRS CMath FIMA, published...
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  • Significance (redirect from Significant)
    Significance (policy debate), a stock issue in policy debate Significant figures or significant digits, the precision of a numerical value Statistical significance...
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  • leads to ambiguity. The number 1230400 is usually read to have five significant figures: 1, 2, 3, 0, and 4, the final two zeroes serving only as placeholders...
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  • as common in many European countries) the number 1 known to four significant figures, i.e. 1±0.0005 (here the dot is a decimal separator, as commonly...
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  • as common in many European countries) the number 10 known to five significant figures, i.e. 10±0.0005 (here the dot is a decimal separator, as commonly...
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  • approximation is sometimes informally used to mean the number of significant figures, in increasing order of accuracy, or to the order of magnitude. However...
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    mid-1950s, the central figures, except Burroughs and Carr, ended up together in San Francisco, where they met and became friends of figures associated with the...
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    means of significant figures. Where not explicitly stated, the margin of error is understood to be one-half the value of the last significant place. For...
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    Lalake. Since then, she has established herself as one of the most significant figures in Philippine pop culture, garnering subsequent success and accolades...
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