significant digit (n)
significant figure (n)

n13742011

type n
lex_filenum 23
def any digit of a number that is known with certainty
def 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)
examples he calculated the answer to four significant figures
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Hypernym digit, figure
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Hyponym digit, figure

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