Khan/khan-exercises — Issue #12713: Significant figures 1 - Significant figures
Author: KhanBugz
Created: 2012-02-01 03:37:34+00:00
State: open
Labels: chrome, win7, wrong-or-unclear

Reporter: gabeyld@msn.com

Question was:
How many significant figures does 0.9592400 have?

Answer given:
"Identify the non-zero digits and any zeros between them. These are all significant.
0.9592400
Counting all the significant digits gives us 7."

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["5","6","6"]

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