Significant Figures Calculator
Round a number to a chosen number of significant digits.
Tool inputs stay in your browser · optional AI search sends your query
Good to know: Significant-digit rounding preserves scale through decimal or exponential notation. Binary floating-point can affect halfway cases; this does not infer measurement uncertainty.
How to use it (step by step)
- 1Fill in the boxes: “Number”, “Significant digits”. Example numbers are already there so you can see how it works; replace them with yours.
- 2The result updates instantly as you type (on a phone it is below the boxes).
- 3The bold line is the main answer. Tap Copy next to any value to copy it.
Words to know
- Hex / binary
- Other ways of writing numbers. Binary uses only 0 and 1; hex uses 0–9 and A–F.
- Rounding / modulo
- Rounding makes a number simpler (4.67 → 4.7). Modulo is the remainder after dividing (10 mod 3 = 1).
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