14.0 and 14.00

are they the same or different? pls help

http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/mmt/frontiers/web/chapter_5/6665.html

"92.00 is different from 92: a scientist who measures 92.00 milliliters knows his value to the nearest 1/100th milliliter; meanwhile his colleague who measured 92 milliliters only knows his value to the nearest 1 milliliter. It's important to understand that "zero" does not mean "nothing." Zero denotes actual information, just like any other number. You cannot tag on zeros that aren't certain to belong there."

you know 14.0 to 3 digits, i.e its 14.0x

14.00 you know to 4 digits, i.e 14.00x



they are the same value, but 14.00 gives more information than 14.0.

This post was edited by JadeBlade23 on Oct 13 2014 02:57pm

depends on what class and what you're doing

e/ if you're doing significant figures or something stupid like that then yeah it matters

This post was edited by Flameyes on Oct 13 2014 02:57pm

doing greater than or =to

This post was edited by Ben10X on Oct 13 2014 03:07pm

you mean anything involving meaningful numerical data?

numerically they're the same. as already stated, the only difference is the significant figures with respect to measurements as well as calculations based on the measurements.

They signify different accuracies based on significant figures.

For instance, 14.0 can be assumed to be accurate to +- 0.05 due to rounding, while 14.00 can be assumed to be accurate to +- 0.005.