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| ==Significant figures==
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| ''"The significant figures of a number are digits that carry meaning contributing to its measurement resolution."'' (Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Significant_figures).
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| The Formulas question has no built-in function to display numbers with a given number of significant figures. However, it is easy to work out this function as the following variable assignment which works with any real number:
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| xr=x==0?x:round(x*pow(10,nsf-1-floor(log10(abs(x)))),0)*pow(10,-nsf+1+floor(log10(abs(x))));
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| where <span style="font-family: monospace;font-size:113%;">x</span> is the number to be rounded, <span style="font-family: monospace;font-size:113%;">nsf</span> the number of significant digits to keep and <span style="font-family: monospace;font-size:113%;">xr</span> the resulting rounded value.
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| This example deals with the display of the correct answers with different numbers of significant figures. | |
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| This example deals with the display of numbers written with a given number of significant figures.
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