In what is quickly becoming a regular and dirgeful drumbeat, another Democratic presidential candidate dropped out of the 2020 primary race. Late last week, it was Boston-area Rep. Seth Moulton’s turn ...

You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. Your regular Significant Digits host, Oliver Roeder, is out, so Erin Doherty, FiveThirtyEight’s politics intern ...

The digits in a number that have actual value. For example, in the number 00005208, the 5-2-0-8 are the significant digits. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires ...

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Test & Measurement Europe. Download the pdf. Instruments such as this DMM display as many as 5½ digits of resolution. (Courtesy of Keithley Instruments.) When you count apples, oranges, or transistors ...