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Why is it misleading to include too many significant figures in a laboratory report?

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The last significant figure is inherently uncertain because of the rounding off. The rounding-off uncertainty is usually half of the last figure's decimal-place value if no other uncertainty is expressed. As a rule of thumb results of measurements and calculations have a limited number of significant figures.

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