This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract It is empirically well established that in large collections of numbers the proportions of entries with the most significant digit A is ${\rm ...

The leftmost, non-zero digit in a number. It is the digit with the greatest value in the number. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires permission.

Leave the digit the same if the next digit is less than 5 (this is called rounding down) but increase it by 1 if the next digit is 5 or more (this is called rounding up). The rounded value must be a ...

In the first column of this series, I introduced the concepts underlying BCD (binary-coded-decimal) representations. In my second column I discussed how we go about adding and subtracting unsigned BCD ...

Test & Measurement Europe. Download the pdf. Instruments such as this DMM display as many as 5½ digits of resolution. (Courtesy of Keithley Instruments.) When you count apples, oranges, or transistors ...