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		falcor84 on Aug 31, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Anna Karenina Principle 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 on Aug 31, 2019 [–]

The 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.

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