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In general and in my humble opinion, using significant figures to
determine an uncertainty is a bad practice.
That said one can beat a dead horse and proceed as follows:
If one assumes, or has been told, that the least significant figure
truly indicates the uncertainty then we have
.... ± sqrt(.005^2 + 0.0005^2)