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Noun Concept
Categories: Numerical analysis, Arithmetic, All articles needing additional references
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significant digit  significant figure  significant figures  first digit  SIGFIG
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Any digit of a number that is known with certainty; any digit of a number beginning with the leftmost non-zero digit and ending with the rightmost non-zero digit (or a zero considered to be the exact value) WordNet 3.0
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Any digit of a number that is known with certainty; any digit of a number beginning with the leftmost non-zero digit and ending with the rightmost non-zero digit (or a zero considered to be the exact value) WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Significant figures, also referred to as significant digits or sig figs, are specific digits within a number written in positional notation that carry both reliability and necessity in conveying a particular quantity. Wikipedia
Any digit of a number within the measurement resolution of that number, as opposed to spurious digits Wikidata
A digit that is meaningful with respect to the precision of a measurement: in other words a digit that is nonzero, followed by a nonzero digit, or (for trailing zeroes) justified by the precision of the derivation or measurement. Wiktionary
Digit. Wiktionary (translation)
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He calculated the answer to four significant figures WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
IS A
digit
decimal digit
HAS PART
zero
decimal digit
trailing zero
PART OF
number
significand
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
DIFFERENT FROM
decimal place
DOES NOT HAVE PART
leading zero
trailing zero
HAS QUALITY
meaning
NOTATION
decimal point
underscore
overline
PARTIALLY COINCIDENT WITH
confidence interval
REPRESENTS
precision
USE
rounding
propagation of uncertainty
USED BY
significance arithmetic
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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significant digit, significant figure
Wikipedia
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significant figures
Wikidata
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significant figure
Wiktionary
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significant digit
Wikipedia Redirections
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Wikidata Alias
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significance, significant digit, significant figures

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