How many units on a 0.5 mL insulin syringe is a 2 mg dose at 4 mg/mL?

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This question was marked as a duplicate of How many units on a 0.3 mL insulin syringe is a 40 mg dose at 2 mg/mL?Closed 13 Mar 2026. It remains here because the answers below are specific to how it was asked.

Concretely: a 0.5 mL insulin syringe · 2 mg · 4 mg/mL.

I want the working, not the result — I need to be able to redo it with different numbers.

I care about the precision as well as the value — I want to know how many figures are real.

How many significant figures are actually justified here?

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8This matches what I was told by a laboratory, for whatever that is worth. – juan_esquivel 5 hours ago

Minor: the trial name is hyphenated in the original publication. – Dr_Signe_Baldursdottir 2 months ago

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