AS 2706-2003

SECTION 1 SCOPE AND GENERAL 1.1 SCOPE 1.2 FORM OF NOTATION 1.3 TYPES OF NUMERICAL VALUESECTION 2 TERMINOLOGY 2.1 FIGURE 2.2 NUMBER OF SIGNIFICANT FIGURES AND DECIMAL PLACES 2.3 ROUNDING INTERVAL 2.4 ACCURACY OF AN INSTRUMENT 2.5 UNCERTAINTY OF MEASUREMENTSECTION 3 PROCEDURE FOR ROUNDING OF NUMBERS 3.1 GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS 3.2 ROUNDING TO ONE UNIT IN THE LAST PLACE RETAINED 3.3 ROUNDING TO FIVE UNITS OR TWO UNITS IN THE LAST PLACE RETAINED 3.4 ROUNDING OF NUMBERS IN COMPUTERS AND CALCULATORSSECTION 4 NUMBER OF SIGNIFICANT FIGURES TO BE RETAINED 4.1 GUIDANCE FROM TEST METHOD 4.2 GENERAL PRACTICES 4.3 RELATIVE VALUES 4.4 VALUES ENDING IN ZEROSECTION 5 INDICATING WHICH PLACES OF FIGURES ARE TO BE CONSIDERED SIGNIFICANT IN SPECIFIED LIMITING VALUES 5.1 GENERAL 5.2 RECOGNIZED METHODS 5.3 ABSOLUTE METHOD 5.4 ROUNDING METHODAPPENDICES A METHOD OF REFERRING TO THIS STANDARD IN ANOTHER STANDARD B EXAMPLES OF INTERPRETATION OF SPECIFIED LIMITING VALUES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ROUNDING METHOD