🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

유효 숫자

Pronunciation / Transliteration: yuhyo suja

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Significand/sɪˈnɪfɪkænd/
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"숫자 0.00456에서 유효 숫자는 456입니다."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The part of a floating-point number that contains its significant digits.

    "In the number 0.00456, the significand is 456."
  2. 2

    In scientific notation, the significand is the coefficient that represents the significant digits of a number.

    "In the scientific notation 3.14 × 10^2, the significand is 3.14."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term 'significand' is derived from the combination of 'significant' and the suffix '-and', which denotes a quantity or entity. It emerged in the mid-20th century, primarily in the context of scientific and mathematical discourse, to describe the digits in a number that contribute to its precision.

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