significant digit

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• March 3. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  significant digit — noun — english

  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"