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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">El 14/01/15 a las 17:04, Ron Adam
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<blockquote cite="mid:m96i4s$qf9$1@ger.gmane.org" type="cite">which
brings up the issue with 0.0 -- how many significant digits does
0.0
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have?
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When a number is not expressed in scientific notation<a
href="http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ScientificNotation.html"></a>,
the amount of significant digits is infinite.<br>
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<span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span class="hps">You
can explicitly define the amount of significant figures in
scientific notation. For example,<br>
0.0000e0 </span></span><span id="result_box" class=""
lang="en"><span class="hps">contain four significant digits,
2.00 contain infinite, 0.00300e0 contain three.<br>
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