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This example deals with the display of numbers written with a given number of significant figures.
This example is a significant figures drill.


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Significant figures

"The significant figures of a number are digits that carry meaning contributing to its measurement resolution." (Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Significant_figures).

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:

xr=x==0?x:round(x*pow(10,nsf-1-floor(log10(abs(x)))),0)*pow(10,-nsf+1+floor(log10(abs(x))));

where x is the number to be rounded, nsf the number of significant digits to keep and xr 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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