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The document provides guidelines on significant digits, detailing rules for defining, operating with, and rounding numbers from measurements. It outlines three basic rules for identifying significant digits, methods for performing operations with significant digits, and specific rounding techniques. Additionally, examples illustrate the application of these concepts in practical scenarios.
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1) Measurements have uncertainty and are approximated, so numbers are classified as having significant or non-significant figures.
2) Rules are provided to determine the number of significant figures in a measured value based on its digits.
3) For calculations, the final answer should have the same number of significant figures as the measured value with the least significant figures. Rounding rules are applied when dropping non-significant digits.Significant digits
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This document discusses significant digits and how to properly express calculated numbers using them. It defines significant figures as how well a measurement was taken, and significant digits as how to express a calculated answer accounting for significant figures. The key rules are:
- When multiplying or dividing, the answer should have the same number of significant digits as the factor with the least significant digits.
- When adding or subtracting, the answer should have the same number of decimal places as the number with the least decimal places.
- Trailing zeros and zeros between numbers are significant, leading zeros are placeholders.
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1. All non-zero digits are significant, as are zeros between non-zero digits. Leading and trailing zeros are only significant if a decimal is present.
2. When adding or subtracting measurements, the answer should have the same number of decimal places as the least precise measurement.
3. When multiplying or dividing measurements, the answer should have the same number of significant figures as the factor with the fewest significant figures.Tutorial - Significant figures
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2. Leading zeros are not significant.
3. Trailing zeros may or may not be significant, depending on whether a decimal is present.
4. In calculations, the answer should match the least number of significant digits in the input values.
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4. In calculations, the answer should match the least number of significant digits in the input values.
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Significant Digits
- 1. SignificantDigitsSignificant Digits (sig digs) provides a guideline on how many decimals use when reporting numbers coming from a measurement system.The following topics are presented in a very simple way to help understand the basic concepts around significant digits:Rules for defining significant digitsOperations with significant digitsRounding rulesExample Luis Elizondo MBBSix Sigma Program Managerlelizond@cisco.com
- 2. Rules for defining significant digitsThere are three basic rules to define how many significant digits are used to represent the uncertainty coming from measuring devices (3 significant digits)2.45 (3 significant digits)Rule 1: all non zero numbers are significantRule 2: any zero between two sig dig is significantRule 3: final zeros in the decimal portion are significant (not the ones used for holding the decimal position)205 (3 significant digits)2.05 (3 significant digits)20.0 (3 significant digits)0.0200 (3 significant digits)http://dbhs.wvusd.k12.ca.us/SigFigs/SigFigRules.html
- 3. Operations with significant digitsNote: Exact numbers are those not measured with a measurement device, like counting people in a room. These numbers have infinite sig dig and does not affect the rules for doing math.Addition and SubtractionMultiplication and DivisionRule : the result will have the number of decimal places of the number that has the least decimalsRule : the result will have the same sig digs as the least precise number (the number with the least sig digs)* There are 4 sig digs in the answerhttp://www.usca.edu/chemistry/genchem/sigfig2.htm
- 4. Rounding RulesIf in need to shorten a number to reflect less sig digs than a calculator , use the following 3 rulesIf it is less than 5, drop it and all the figures to the right of it. 2. If it is more than 5, increase by 1 the number to be rounded, that is, the preceding figure. 3. If it is 5, round the number so that it will be even. Zero is consider even.62.5347 round to 4 sig digs 62.53 62.5347 round to 5 sig digs 62.535 62.5347 round to 2 sig digs 62 (even number) 2.0495 round to 4 sig digs 2.050 726.835 round to 5 sig digs 726.84 (even number) http://dbhs.wvusd.k12.ca.us/SigFigs/SigFigRules.html
- 5. Example: averaging 4 numbers3 + 4 + 5 + 517==4.2441.- addition of numbers with no decimal places (1 sig dig each)2.- 17 (2 sig digs) divided by an exact number > result should have 2 sig digs3.- calculator 4.25 round to 2 sig digs . a 5 preceded by an even number = 4.2Luis Elizondo MBBSix Sigma Program Managerlelizond@cisco.com