The leftmost, non-zero digit in a number. It is the digit with the greatest value in the number. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires permission.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract It is empirically well established that in large collections of numbers the proportions of entries with the most significant digit A is ${\rm ...

Leave the digit the same if the next digit is less than 5 (this is called rounding down) but increase it by 1 if the next digit is 5 or more (this is called rounding up). The rounded value must be a ...

Test & Measurement Europe. Download the pdf. Instruments such as this DMM display as many as 5½ digits of resolution. (Courtesy of Keithley Instruments.) When you count apples, oranges, or transistors ...

In the first column of this series, I introduced the concepts underlying BCD (binary-coded-decimal) representations. In my second column I discussed how we go about adding and subtracting unsigned BCD ...