Sometimes abbreviated as LSD, the least significant digit is the lowest digit in a number, located at the far right of a string. For example, in the number 2006, the "6" is the least significant digit.
How do you find the least significant digit?
Significant Figure Rules
- Non-zero digits are always significant.
- All zeros between other significant digits are significant.
- The number of significant figures is determined by starting with the leftmost non-zero digit. ...
- The rightmost digit of a decimal number is the least significant digit or least significant figure.
What is least and most significant digit?
Of the significant figures in a number, the most significant is the digit with the highest exponent value (simply the left-most significant figure), and the least significant is the digit with the lowest exponent value (simply the right-most significant figure).
