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It was the introduction of the zero symbol in the form of 0 because it made mathematical calculations a lot easier to work out.
Most Jews would say that the Torah is the most significant section.
I assume you mean a binary representation of a number.The "least significant bit" (usually the one to the far right but in some languages it has another placement) is "ones"the next most significant bit are the twosThe third most significant bit are the foursetc.So if your number is 37there is one 32 (the sixth most significant bit)no 16's (the fifth most significant bit)no 8's (the fourth most significant bit)one 4 (the third most significant bit)no 2's (the second most significant bit)one 1 (the least most significant bit)if we are to fill an 8 bit "word " we get:0010 0101
38/1000 = 0.038 since the 3 (most significant digit) is two places to the right of the decimal point, the standard form is: 3.80 * 10^-2
The significant digits of a number represent a count of digits and so are represented by an integer. Any integer can be written in fractional form.