Approximation of pi based on sqrt(10)

[Thomas Okken]

(09-08-2017 08:58 PM)Dieter Wrote:  

(09-07-2017 07:10 PM)Thomas Okken Wrote:  Not a native speaker, but what you're looking for is "decimal places."
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/decimal_place

Thank you.

Then I read the wiktionary entry for "significant digit" and now I wonder if wiktionary really is a reliable source. According to the given definition ("A digit that is nonzero or, when zero, followed only by further zeros") 1000001 has just two significant digits. #-)

Dieter,
confused.

Language, being a tool of communication, is always going to be a matter of consensus, not absolute truth. I don't think there's anything controversial about the meaning of "decimal place," though, and I didn't post the wiktionary link as an appeal to authority; it's just a reference.