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Subject: OT: definition of "significant figures"
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Given a set of measurements x(i), I'd like to print their average to
the "correct" number of significant figures.  eg
  1.11, 1.12, 1.08 => "1.1",   1.11, 1.25, 1.35 => "1"
I've got some adhocery that more or less does it, but is there a
moderately standard, formal, definition?