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Describe what is meant by significant
figures and order of magnitude.
und values of two quantities
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The order of magnitude of a physical quantity is its magnitude in powers of ten when the physical quantity is expressed in powers of ten with one digit to the left of the decimal. ... Two numbers of the same order of magnitude have roughly the same scale — the larger value is less than ten times the smaller value.
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Order of magnitude refers to rough approximation
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Example: around 100 could be anywhere from 50 to 200. Significant figures describes something fairly precise. Example: 1.26 (3 significant figures) means something in the range 1.255 to 1.265.
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