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can u plz explain about significant figures?

can u plz explain about significant figures?


 

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Sumit Majumdar IIT Delhi
askIITians Faculty 137 Points
9 years ago
Dear student,
The significant figures of a number are actually those digits which carry a meaningful contributing towards its precision. This would include all digits except:

a) All leading zeros;
b) The zeroes which trail and thus they are merely placeholders to indicate the scale of the number; and
c) Spurious digits which are introduced by calculations which have been carried out to a greater precision than that of the original data.

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