Copyright (c) 1995-1999 Sullivan Beck. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. Notes for version 1.01 A couple of bug fixes and minor improvements. In many scientific applications, it is often useful to be able to format numbers with a given number of significant figures, or to do math in such a way as to maintain the correct number of significant figures. The rules for significant figures are too complicated to be handled solely using the sprintf function (unless you happen to be Randal Schwartz :-). These routines allow you to correctly handle significant figures. They can count the number of significan figures, format a number to a given number of significant figures, and do basic arithmetic. AUTHOR Sullivan Beck (sbeck@cise.ufl.edu)