Question

What do you mean by the term significant figures?

ICSE Class 9 Physics Chapter Measurements and Experimentation

Answer 1

The term significant figures refers to the number of important single digits(0 through 9 inclusive) in the coefficient of an expression in scientific notation . The number of significant figures in an expression indicates the confidence or precision with which an engineer or scientist states a quantity.

Answer 2

Explanation:

The number of significant figures in a given data is the number of all certain digits plus one uncertain digit. For example, 3.015 has four significant figures.

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