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How are significant figures defined?

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Anonymous

11y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

A significant figure is one which has an impact on what you are calculating. They tend to come up where pure maths meets science.

Normally you round to 2 or 3 significant figures because after that the tiny value represented by your rounding is pretty insignificant. You should however account for rounding errors in your final results accuracy.

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11y ago

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