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> Writing 2 extra decimal places is assuming the original values also have 2 decimal places with zeros in them. As long as you have at least one digit of preci
by KMag 6y ago
> Writing 2 extra decimal places is assuming the original values also have 2 decimal places with zeros in them.
As long as you have at least one digit of precision, scientific notation is unambiguous as to the number of significant figures.
- lopmotr 6y agoYes, but these figures weren't written in scientific notation so we can't tell. Especially the trailing 0 on 110 is ambiguous because people often write a 0 there where it really is 0 while the convention is that a 0 means it's unknown.