Most Significant Digit

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
MSD
Pronunciation
/moʊst sɪgˈnɪfɪkənt ˈdɪʤɪt/
Category
Computing
Related Field
General

Examples in Context

  1. Based on these properties, a necessary and sufficient condition of quotient sequences matching for high-precision numbers and their most significant digit.
  2. In a positional notation, a zero in a more? significant?? digit? place than the digit place of the most significant nonzero digit of a numeral.

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