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I don't think they specify any precision. It's just a way to write very large/small numbers approximately. (Though these numbers here aren't really considered large.)


They do. See wikipedia [significant figures] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_notation#Significan...

In this case, it is pointless though, since the precision is actually known.




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