Digit most significant

Example Assume three-decimal floating arithmetic (i.e., only the three most significant digits of any niimher are retained), and solve the following system hy Gauss ehmination ... 

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Solution. After dividing the number by 2, the remainder is noted in each step. The last remainder will make most significant digit and first remainder as least significant digit. 

The Problem There are situations, when one of the species in a phase (usually water in applications to aqueous solutions) has a mole fraction in excess of. 97, and that phase is much smaller than other phases in the problem, where excess round-off error can occur, without any indication to the user. In machines with limited precision, such as the IBM 360 with single precision, the round-off error can be so severe as to remove all precision. That is, the most significant digit and perhaps even the exponent of important quantities will be incorrect, even though the SOLVE algorithm terminates, apparently satisfactorily, and there are no other obvious indications of severe error. 

All digits between the least and most significant are counted as significant digits. 

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