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Definition: significant digit
significant digit
n : 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” [syn:
significant figure
]