Chapter 1
Relationships
1.6 What's Significant about a Digit?
Problems
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Write down a 4SD approximation to `9pi//5`.
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Explain why `5.66` is not a correct 3SD approximation to `9pi//5`. That is, explain why it is not legitimate to do repeated rounding. What is the correct 3SD approximation?
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Experiment with the pop-up calculator to determine the smallest positive number it can recognize and display.
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Similarly, determine the largest number it can recognize and display.
- Estimate the total number of different numbers your calculator can recognize and display. Is this number finite and moderately large, finite and enormously large, or infinite? Why?
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