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How many significant figures
are in this number?
0.00708900

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The answer is 6. The two front 0’s after the decimal point are not significant and everything after that is significant which because 1. Non zero numbers are significant
2. Zeros between non zero numbers are significant 3. Trailing zeros are significant (in decimals
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