Units and Measurement
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3 days agoContributor-Level 10
We cannot call the trailing zeroes as significant numbers. If you remember from the rules, it needs to have a decimal point somewhere to be considered as one. What is recommended is that one can use the measure as to the power of 10.
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a week agoContributor-Level 10
In a number without decimal, trailing zeros are insignificant. If a number has a decimal, then preceding zeros are insignificant.
Hence, in 40.40 all zeros are significant
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