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CH. 3 Sig Fig Intro
Significant Figures
Question | Answer |
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getting close to the expected value | accurate |
the closeness of a series of values to each other | precise |
non-zeros (NZ), trapped, trailing with decimal (TWD) | always significant figures |
leading , trailing without decimal (TWOD) | never significant figures |
90009. All of the numbers between the 9's | trapped |
number written as the product of a number between 0 & 10 x 10 raised to a power | scientific notation |
1 , 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 are this type of number | non-zeros |
6.0000 all the numbers after the 6 | trailing zeros with decimal |
400 all the numbers after the 4 | trailing zeros without a decimal |
0.00002 all of the numbers before the 2 | leading zeros |