EDITORS SHOULD ALLOW ONLY SIGNIFICANT DIGITS

Editors should allow only significant digits

“Out of 80 experiments, 45 (56.3%) had Play Gyms a favourable outcome.” If you read this sentence in a manuscript, would you want to edit the figures?I certainly would.There are too many digits in ‘56.3%’.The decimal 3 is meaningless; 56% is precise enough.If the number of favourable outcomes is 44, the perce

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Richness, geographic distribution and ecological aspects of the fern community within the Murici Ecological Station in the state of Alagoas, Brazil

We conducted a floristic survey of ferns within the Murici Ecological Station (remnant of the northeastern Atlantic Forest), located near the municipalities of Messias and Murici, in the state of Alagoas, Brazil.To increase knowledge of the ferns of Alagoas, we evaluated the species occurring in the study area in terms of richness, composition, geo

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