significant figure
any digit of a number within the measurement resolution of that number, as opposed to spurious digits
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significant figure
Summary
significant figure ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (529 views/month).[1]
Key Facts
- significant figure's image is recorded as Sigfigs.png[2].
- significant figure's subclass of is recorded as digit[3].
- significant figure's part of is recorded as number[4].
- significant figure's part of is recorded as significand[5].
- significant figure's has use is recorded as propagation of uncertainty[6].
- significant figure's has use is recorded as rounding[7].
- significant figure's opposite of is recorded as spurious digit[8].
- significant figure's has part is recorded as digit[9].
- significant figure's has part is recorded as zero[10].
- significant figure's has part is recorded as trailing zero[11].
- significant figure's has part is recorded as trailing zero[12].
- significant figure's has part is recorded as trailing zero[13].
- significant figure's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01tzvd[14].
- significant figure's notation is recorded as overline[15].
- significant figure's notation is recorded as decimal separator[16].
- significant figure's notation is recorded as underline[17].
- significant figure's represents is recorded as precision[18].
- significant figure's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 4[19].
- significant figure's partially coincident with is recorded as confidence interval[20].
- significant figure's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/significant-digits[21].
- significant figure's used by is recorded as significance arithmetic[22].
- significant figure's has characteristic is recorded as meaning[23].
- significant figure's different from is recorded as decimal place[24].
- significant figure's MathWorld ID is recorded as SignificantDigits[25].
- significant figure's does not have part is recorded as leading zero[26].
Why It Matters
significant figure ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (529 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] It is known by 39 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]