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If and are the number of significant figures in , and respectively then
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Significant figures are calculated through certain rules:
(i) All the digits that have no zero are significant.
(ii) Zeros that are written at the right hand side of the last non-zero digit in a number with the decimal are significant, while if the decimal is not present then the zeros are not significant.
(iii) The zeros that are written before non-zero digits are not significant.
(iv) Zeros that are written between the non- zero digits are significant.
So, here number of significant figures in , and are four. Thus, .
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