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Math::SigDig version 1.0
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                                  SigDig.pm
                                 Version 1.0

  What is it?
  -----------

  Math::SigDig is a module that provides methods to round a number to a
  specified number of significant digits and count the number of significant
  digits.  It allows you to edit numbers to a significant number of digits
  (whether they include a decimal point or not).  In scientific endeavors, the
  number of digits that are "significant" in the result of a calculation using
  2 numbers is frequently the number of significant digits in the number with
  the least number of significant digits (e.g. 2.0 * 232.12 = 464.24, where
  464.24 is reduced to 2 significant digits: 460).

INSTALLATION

To install this module type the following:

   perl Makefile.PL
   make
   make test
   make install

DEPENDENCIES

None

CONTACT

Correspondence can be sent to the author below directly.

AUTHOR

Robert W. Leach  
Bioinformatics Group  
Lewis Seigler Institute for Integrative Genomics  
Princeton University  
Princeton, NJ

KNOWN ISSUES

None

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

This software (Math::SigDig) and ancillary information (herein called
"SOFTWARE") is free: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms
of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation,
either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

If SOFTWARE is modified to produce derivative works, such modified SOFTWARE
should be clearly marked, so as not to confuse it with this version.