Approximation & Estimation

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What you'll learn

Rounding and significant figures let us write numbers to a sensible level of detail; estimation uses rounded numbers to sanity-check a calculation quickly.

  • Rounding to decimal places
  • Rounding to a place value
  • What counts as a significant figure
  • Rounding to significant figures
  • Estimating with 1 significant figure
  • Why we estimate
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