significant figure

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noun

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
• Syn:
significant digit
• Hypernyms:
digit, figure