How do you call it when you...?

Question

Ok...lets say I have a bunch of numbers that look like this:
> 5.21
> 4.25
> 7.85
> 9.34
> and another 100 more like those

I dont want to put the decimal on the calculator, so it would be just this:
> 521 instead than 5.21

How do you call it, what mathematical operation describes how I transformed the number?

Answer 1

you multiplied it by 100

Answer 2

I don't know what to call it but what you did is just multiply the decimal by 100. % will explain what you are doing because % of 521 will be 5.21

Answer 3

In mathematical terms, you can call it "scaling" in which all quantities are multiplied by the same factor, in this case 100. The 100 is called the scale factor. It can also be called "normalization", but that is a specific form of scaling in which all quantities are expressed in term of some other quantity. Most often, normalizing scale factors are less than zero.

Answer 4

you multiply by 100 because you need to eliminate 2 decimals and you do the same thing for any other no like for 9.784 you would multiply by 1000 and so on
:)

Answer 5

scientific notation?

Answer 6

no