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How is significant figures used in daily life? - Answers
You may talk about the walk to school being 12 minutes, not 12.3547937... minutes. That is because 2 significant figures is all that is needed to convey the relevant information. Furthermore, you will not have the equipment to record your time to that degree of precision. You measure your height in [metres and] centimetres or [feet and] inches, but to no more accuracy. Your mass is measured in whole kilograms - at most 3 sig figs - not as 105.697531 kg! Although the mathematical constant, pi, has been calculated to over 10 trillion decimal digits (as of Sept 2014), many people will use only 3 sig figs (3.14) and most of the rest will stop at 6 sig figs (3.14159).
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How is significant figures used in daily life? - Answers
You may talk about the walk to school being 12 minutes, not 12.3547937... minutes. That is because 2 significant figures is all that is needed to convey the relevant information. Furthermore, you will not have the equipment to record your time to that degree of precision. You measure your height in [metres and] centimetres or [feet and] inches, but to no more accuracy. Your mass is measured in whole kilograms - at most 3 sig figs - not as 105.697531 kg! Although the mathematical constant, pi, has been calculated to over 10 trillion decimal digits (as of Sept 2014), many people will use only 3 sig figs (3.14) and most of the rest will stop at 6 sig figs (3.14159).
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How is significant figures used in daily life? - Answers
You may talk about the walk to school being 12 minutes, not 12.3547937... minutes. That is because 2 significant figures is all that is needed to convey the relevant information. Furthermore, you will not have the equipment to record your time to that degree of precision. You measure your height in [metres and] centimetres or [feet and] inches, but to no more accuracy. Your mass is measured in whole kilograms - at most 3 sig figs - not as 105.697531 kg! Although the mathematical constant, pi, has been calculated to over 10 trillion decimal digits (as of Sept 2014), many people will use only 3 sig figs (3.14) and most of the rest will stop at 6 sig figs (3.14159).
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