Mel wrote:
Erik Max Francis wrote:
Chris Angelico wrote:
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
Zero sig figure: 0
That's not really zero significant figures; without further
qualification, it's one.
Is 0.0 one sig fig or two?
Two.
(Just vaguely curious. Also curious as to
whether a zero sig figures value is ever useful.)
Yes. They're order of magnitude estimates. 1 x 10^6 has one
significant figure. 10^6 has zero.
By convention, nobody ever talks about 1 x 9.97^6 .
Not sure what the relevance is, since nobody had mentioned any such thing.
If it was intended as a gag, I don't catch the reference.
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