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significant figure

significant figure
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    • any digit of a number that is known with certainty; 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)
    "he calculated the answer to four significant figures"

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    1. Given Microsoft’s significant economic capacity, in order to ensure a sufficient deterrent effect on Microsoft, this figure is adjusted upwards by a factor of two to EUR 331464203.
    2. This exceeded by a significant margin the planned target for 2003 of a little over EUR 160 billion. By 2006 the figure should have fallen to just under EUR [...]*.
    3. The final test result shall be rounded in one step to the number of places to the right of the decimal point indicated by the applicable emission standard plus one additional significant figure, in accordance with ASTM E 29-04.
    4. The initial amount of the fine to be imposed on Microsoft to reflect the gravity of the infringement should be, in light of the above circumstances, EUR 165732101. Given Microsoft’s significant economic capacity, in order to ensure a sufficient deterrent effect on Microsoft, this figure is adjusted upwards by a factor of two to EUR 331464203.
    5. Consolidated liabilities fell from EUR 185 billion at the end of 2001 by EUR 32 billion to EUR 153 billion in mid-2003. This exceeded by a significant margin the planned target for 2003 of a little over EUR 160 billion. By 2006 the figure should have fallen to just under EUR [...]*.
    6. ‘Upper frontal protection system reference line’ means a line which identifies the upper limit to significant points of pedestrian contact with the frontal protection system. The line is the geometric trace of the upper most points of contact between a straight edge 700 mm long and the frontal protection system, when the straight edge, held parallel to the vertical longitudinal plane of the vehicle and inclined rearwards by 20°, is traversed across the front of the vehicle, while maintaining contact with the ground and with the surface of the frontal protection system (see Figure 14).