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)
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significant digit::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | significant figure |
| Type of | digit, figure |
Examples of significant digit
significant digit
In some cases, it may be useful to know how exact the final significant digit is.
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For the first three fields, the most significant digit is on the left.
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For example, it is common for digital balances to exhibit random error in their least significant digit.
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A digit lower than a threshold value marks that it is the most-significant digit, hence the end of the number.
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To use them, we first decompose the given number into a sum of numbers with only one significant digit each.
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The numbers are binned based on the first significant digit, and within each stack binned again based on the second significant digit.
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In this case, the number is oriented horizontally, with the least-significant-digit marker to the lower right in the image.
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Most significant digit radix sorts which operate at lower number bases, such as 2, are better for sorting sparsely distributed data.
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In this case, the number is oriented horizontally rather than vertically, with the least-significant-digit marker to the upper left in the image.
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