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Well, 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 measur
by falcor84 7y ago
Well, 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.