21. Such a subtraction can lose significant digits . 22. For example, it is common for digital balances to exhibit random error in their least significant digit . 23. For small values the exporting programme will make an effort to preserve as many significant digits as possible. 24. QED . The only horrifying thing here is that they unscientifically quoted the result to 9 significant digits . 25. For precise calculations, errors due to rounding and the number of significant digits of constants must be considered. 26. Arithmetic was done serially, one digit at a time, beginning with most-significant digits then working rightwards to least-significant digits . 27. Arithmetic was done serially, one digit at a time, beginning with most-significant digits then working rightwards to least-significant digits. 28. LSD radix sorts process the integer representations starting from the least digit and move towards the most significant digit . 29. In the second case, the answer seems to have one significant digit , which would amount to loss of significance. 30. :: : : : : : : This addition problem doesn't really involve the number of significant digits anyway.
