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...written with too many significant figures can be taken to imply a higher [[Arithmetic precision|precision]] than is known, and a result that is written with too ...nd hence the uncertainty of the result. For an alternatives see [[interval arithmetic]] and [[floating point error mitigation]]. ...

...especially when dividing two numbers in [[integer]] or doing [[fixed-point arithmetic]]; when computing mathematical functions such as [[square root]]s, [[logari This is one of two rules generally taught in US elementary mathematics classes.{{Citation needed|date=March 2009}} ...

...umbers at which {{MATH|exp(''z'')}} is equal to one is then an (imaginary) arithmetic progression of the form: ...arlier by [[Carl Friedrich Gauss]], in what is now termed the [[AGM method|arithmetic–geometric mean method]] (AGM method) or [[Gauss–Legendre algorithm]].<ref n ...