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Section 3

Significant Figures and Order of Magnitude

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Scientific Notation

Scientific notation is a way of writing numbers that are too big or too small in a convenient and standard form.

Round-off Error

A round-off error is the difference between the calculated approximation of a number and its exact mathematical value.

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Order of Magnitude Calculations

An order of magnitude is the class of scale of any amount in which each class contains values of a fixed ratio to the class preceding it.

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