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What is the situation where a zero is not considered to be a significant digit?
Leading 0s are not significant digits, nor are trailing 0s after a decimal point in some situations. For example in 01000.01000, the first 0 is not significant as it can be left off without impacting the number. The final three 0s can be significant in some cirmcumstances, such as precise scientific measurements, or non-significant as they do not alter the number's value of 1000.01
Zero are always considered significant digits when they are to the left of the decimal point as in 0.032?
No, a leading zero is NEVER a significant digit.
Is considered a significant digit when it is to the left or the right of the decimal point and do it follows a non-zero digit?
If I understand this convoluted sentence correctly, then think it is true.
How many significant figures in 10200?
All zeros appearing in a number without a decimal point and to the right of the last nonzero digit are not significant unless indicated by a bar. Example: '1300' has two significant figures: 1 and 3. The zeros are not considered significant because they don't have a bar. However, 1300.0 has five significant figures. So 10200 has 3 significant figures because it does not have a decimal point so the zeros after the 2 are not considered significant.
Is considered a significant digit when it is to the right of the decimal point it follows a non-zero digit or when it is between two digits?
I'll assume you're asking about zeros. Zeros appearing anywhere between two non-zero digits are significant. In the other two cases they could be, but are not necessarily significant.
