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Given:

Number =  

 

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The total number of single digits used in expressing a number is known as significant figures.

The rules for counting significant figures are,

  1. .All non-zero numbers are significant.

  2. The zeros occurring between two significant numbers are significant.

  3. .The trailing zeros, present in a decimal value, are the only significant ones.

  4. .The exponential values are not significant.

 

In the number, , leading zeros are not significant. Only non zero digit  is significant. Hence there is one significant figure in .

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