Engineering Number Format

[Claudio L.]

(09-03-2014 06:47 PM)ndzied1 Wrote:  I know it is not the final say on everything but Wikipedia seems to go with the idea that the number of trailing digits shown represents the number of significant digits in the number.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Significant...c_notation

Which, as is common in Wikipedia, contradicts its own definition of Scientific Notation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_notation

In which the trailing zeros are given as optional.

Claudio