2007-03-27 01:58:42 · 5 answers · asked by biggsclimes 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
Yes. The decimal point marks the place. The extra zeroes may just be "place markers" to make it easier to add ot subtract.
2007-03-27 02:02:59 · answer #1 · answered by Bobby G 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes and no
Yes because numerically they are the same value
and
no because they have a different accuracy when you are talking about significant digits
what I mean by that is that -.3 is accurate to one decimal place and -.300 is accurate to 3 decimal places
2007-03-27 09:16:38 · answer #2 · answered by Glenn T 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Writing these numbers in a way to avoid confusion, they would read: -0.3 and -0.300. We know that after a decimal point, the zeros that appear at the end are to be ignored, and so the second no. would be -0.3 which is th same as the first no.
2007-03-27 09:11:24 · answer #3 · answered by greenhorn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes -.3 and -.300 are d same coz d 00's make no differnce to .300 since they r after the no. if they wer bfore d no eg. -.0300 then it wd have been differnt ..
2007-03-27 09:24:09 · answer #4 · answered by Master Of Disaster 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it depends, if you're doing like a math problem for math of course, it's technically the same thing, however, if it's chemistry, NO, they are completely different measurements.
2007-03-27 10:17:59 · answer #5 · answered by ... 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋