This is a good idea for a calculator app. I teach university chemistry and see how useful this might be for students learning about sig. figs. A few caveats, however. Sig. Figs. is an simplistic approach to propagation of errors. If youβre serious about sig. figs., then this calculator may give you wrong answers. That is because it does not β and I see no easy solution in a simple calculator appβ include the covariance between numbers. Ignoring covariance will give you less significant figures than you actually have.
As a chemistry professor, what I would like is a calculator that understand units and dimensional analysis. That would be a great app!
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