{"id":1744,"date":"2009-03-06T04:51:49","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T09:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=1744"},"modified":"2009-03-06T04:51:49","modified_gmt":"2009-03-06T09:51:49","slug":"this-is-highly-significant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1744","title":{"rendered":"This is Highly Significant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/goodmath\/2009\/03\/basics_significant_figures.php\">Basics: Significant Figures<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The idea of significant figures is that when you&#8217;re doing experimental work, you&#8217;re taking measurements &#8211; and measurements always have a limited precision. The fact that your measurements &#8211; the inputs to any calculation or analysis that you do &#8211; have limited precision, means that the results of your calculations likewise have limited precision. Significant figures (or significant digits, or just &#8220;sigfigs&#8221; for short) are a method of tracking measurement precision, in a way that allows you to propagate your precision limits throughout your calculation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Basics: Significant Figures The idea of significant figures is that when you&#8217;re doing experimental work, you&#8217;re taking measurements &#8211; and measurements always have a limited precision. The fact that your measurements &#8211; the inputs to any calculation or analysis that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1744\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math","category-science-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}