slange-862761 (10/28/2009)
cengland0 (10/28/2009)
Don't they realize 3.6 and 3.6000 is the same value and it's more proper to delete the extra zeros?Not sure I agree that it is more "proper". Depending on what the number represents you may want to know that it was calculated at some precision. For example if you were measuring the clearance of a piston to the cylinder it would be more "proper" to say 3.6000 instead of 3.6. As with everything these types of things need to be suited to the task at hand. Just my 2 cents. 🙂
Well I think you are both kind of correct. Trailing zeros are good to show precision, but we just rounded a number so how precise could it be? There may be a reason they chose to leave as many zeros as digits after the decimal. I personally cannot think of why they would do it, but maybe somebody else could think of a good reason.