Do negative numbers also have significant figures?
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Do negative numbers also have significant figures?
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Answer:
For negative numbers, to find the number of significant figures, you can find the number of significant figures of the absolute value. 0.03 and −0.03 have the same number of significant digits (or figures), namely one.