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How many significant digits are in 705.0 ?

User Colxi
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There are four significant digits.

Any numbers that's not 0 counts as a significant digit. Since the zeroes in this number are either between two numbers or behind a decimal point, they also count as significant.
User Alan Cole
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all trailing zeros after dec. pt are sig.
all nonzero numbers are sig.
all zeros between nonzero numbers are sig.

there are 4 significant digits
User Luchaninov
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