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You can represent 0 a countably infinite number of ways: 0 0.0 0.00 0.000 0.0000 ...
by cgriswald 7y ago
You can represent 0 a countably infinite number of ways:
0
0.0
0.00
0.000
0.0000
...
- falcor84 7y agoWell, the convention in maths is that we never add trailing zeros, since they wouldn't as any information. Unlike in other sciences, where they represent measurement precision.
- cgriswald 7y agoThe same is true of .999... and 1. In any case, it’s an artifact of how we represent numbers, not an property of the numbers themselves.