| 21. | Such a subtraction can lose significant digits.
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| 22. | For example, it is common for digital balances to exhibit random error in their least significant digit.
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| 23. | For small values the exporting programme will make an effort to preserve as many significant digits as possible.
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| 24. | QED . The only horrifying thing here is that they unscientifically quoted the result to 9 significant digits.
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| 25. | For precise calculations, errors due to rounding and the number of significant digits of constants must be considered.
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| 26. | Arithmetic was done serially, one digit at a time, beginning with most-significant digits then working rightwards to least-significant digits.
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| 27. | Arithmetic was done serially, one digit at a time, beginning with most-significant digits then working rightwards to least-significant digits.
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| 28. | LSD radix sorts process the integer representations starting from the least digit and move towards the most significant digit.
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| 29. | In the second case, the answer seems to have one significant digit, which would amount to loss of significance.
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| 30. | :: : : : : : : This addition problem doesn't really involve the number of significant digits anyway.
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