I was just wondering what the difference will be.

0 is integer. 0.00 is floating point.

Certainty. 0 can be anything between +0.49.... and -0.49...
whereas 0.00 must be in the range +0.0049.... to -0.0049....


Hans

0 is an egg standing on its end whereas 0.00 is 3 eggs standing on their ends but there is a cockroach trying to steal one of them.

why was zero invented?

So we could have horse races.

Why the hell not?

Obviously 0.00 has two more zeros and a dot than 0. No? :confused:

The Roman number system didn't have the concept of zero and that severely limited their progress in mathematics.

We take zero for granted and it seems so obvious but it has not always been that way.

In computing, especially in database work, we also have the concept of NULL. Where zero is a representation of a numeric quantity, NULL is the absense of anything.

Isn't the 0.00 meant to represent a more precise measurement? 0.00 would have less of an calculated degree of error then just plain 0. At least I think thats what we learned in an old high school physics class, althought that was a while ago. I believe Hans hit the bullseye when he talked about "Certainty".

0 is a numerical quantity. 0.00 is a place indicator. 90.009 would be 9.9 without 0.00.

I remember the use of 0.00 in science during Physics. It's something to do with making calculations, and the end result had to have the same decimal places as the one in the calculation. Like 4.00 + 12 = 16.0...or something like that, I can remember. :confused:

The zero was invented for the purpose of a placeholder, or because some lazy bum was too lazy to lazy up more squiggly lines to represent numbers. :D

The difference is the number of significant figures. More spaces after the decimal means it's a more accurate measurement, and basically your calculations can only be as accurate as your least number of sig. figs. So if i made four measurements to five places after, and one measurement to one place after, the most accurate my answer could be is one place after. I don't remember the specific rules, but that's the gist of it.

For computer geeks, the difference is the format. 0 is integer and takes 8 bits to represent. 0.00 is floating point and take at least 32 bits.

Originally posted by Cris
0 is an egg standing on its end whereas 0.00 is 3 eggs standing on their ends but there is a cockroach trying to steal one of them.
ROTFL!!!!1


(Sorry, usually post more than 5 letters, but v amusing!!)