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Significant figure   /səgnˈɪfɪkənt fˈɪgjər/   Listen
Significant figure

noun
1.
Any digit of a number that is known with certainty; any digit of a number beginning with the leftmost non-zero digit and ending with the rightmost non-zero digit (or a zero considered to be the exact value).  Synonym: significant digit.






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"Significant figure" Quotes from Famous Books



... nevertheless an honest man, well-intentioned, thoughtful, careful. Haguenin, ever since the outcome of Cowperwood's gas transaction, had been intensely interested in the latter's career. It seemed to him that Cowperwood was probably destined to become a significant figure. Raw, glittering force, however, compounded of the cruel Machiavellianism of nature, if it be but Machiavellian, seems to exercise a profound attraction for the conventionally rooted. Your cautious citizen of average means, looking out through ...
— The Titan • Theodore Dreiser



Words linked to "Significant figure" :   figure, digit



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