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Definition of Significant figure
1. Noun. 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). "He calculated the answer to four significant figures"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Significant Figure
Literary usage of Significant figure
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hydraulics by Robert Long Daugherty (1919)
"The products of the minimum and maximum values in each case are and, thus showing
that our result of is uncertain in the third significant figure as we ..."
2. The Academician: Containing the Elements of Scholastic Science, and the by Albert Picket, John W. Picket (1820)
"Generally then, if we decompose in the same manner, any significant figure,
followed on the right by a certain number of cyphers, in order to divide it by 3 ..."
3. Plane and Spherical Trigonometry: And Four-place Tables of Logarithms by William Anthony Granville (1909)
"By interpolation* however, we may, in the first case, find the mantissa of a
number having a fifth significant figure ; and in the second case, ..."
4. Elements of Algebra by George Albert Wentworth (1895)
"Determine the first significant figure of each root of the equation x3 — 5x — 3 = 0.
If x=-2, -1-0.7, -0.6, + 0,+1, ..."
5. An Elementary Treatise on Arithmetic by Silvestre François Lacroix (1825)
"In general, if we resolve in the same manner a number expressed by one significant
figure, followed, on the right, by a number of ciphers, ..."
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