Significant figures, also referred to as significant digits or sig figs, are specific digits within a number written in positional notation that carry...

Significant Figures: The Lives and Work of Great Mathematicians is a 2017 nonfiction book by British mathematician Ian Stewart FRS CMath FIMA, published...

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...

Significance (policy debate), a stock issue in policy debate Significant figures or significant digits, the precision of a numerical value Statistical significance...

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...

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...

Asia figure given includes entire districts with significant portions in Asia, with significant figures reduced to reflect the uncertainty. Total area is...

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...

approximation is sometimes informally used to mean the number of significant figures, in increasing order of accuracy, or to the order of magnitude. However...

roots are very close. This can lead to loss of up to half of correct significant figures in the roots. The golden ratio is found as the positive solution...