significant digit

collocation in English

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significant
adjective
uk
/sɪɡˈnɪf.ɪ.kənt/us
/sɪɡˈnɪf.ə.kənt/
important ...
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digit
noun[C]
uk
/ˈdɪdʒ.ɪt/us
/ˈdɪdʒ.ɪt/
any one of the ten numbers 0 ...
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(Definition ofsignificantanddigitfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Keeping the digits in increasing order of weight is a natural choice since addition proceeds from the least to the mostsignificantdigit.
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A binary number is represented by a list of binary digits, the leastsignificantdigitcoming first.
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Questions must be answered to the proper number of significant digits, with small variation in the finalsignificantdigitacceptable.
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The answer must be found one digit at a time starting at the leastsignificantdigitand moving left.
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Then, the process repeats with the next neighbouring moresignificantdigituntil there are no more digits to process.
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The last 9 digit is the eighteenth fractional digit and thus the twentiethsignificantdigitof the string.
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The numbers are binned based on the firstsignificantdigit, and within each stack binned again based on the secondsignificantdigit.
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The other, alternative, representation method is based on densely packed decimal for most of the significand (except the mostsignificantdigit).
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To use them, the given number must first be decomposed into a sum of numbers with only onesignificantdigiteach.
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It is analogous to the leastsignificantdigitof a decimal integer, which is the digit in the "ones" (right-most) position.
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Signs could be added to a field by overpunching the leastsignificantdigitwith a zone punch: 12 for plus and 11 for minus.
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For example, it is common for digital balances to exhibit random error in their leastsignificantdigit.
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A single processor would be used at the start (the mostsignificantdigit).
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Within-run error expressed as 2m in the last significant digits.
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For ease of presentation, discounted costs and survival are shown rounded to four significant digits.
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The last two fields are treated as eight separate bytes, each having their mostsignificantdigiton the left, and they follow each other from left to right.
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Yet, this limit is twice the number of significant digits attainable by the general-purpose ode113.
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