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What is the purpose for leaving decimal values at the end of a number? The may give additional precision or may be indicators of the number of significant digits in the calculation. As an example of the latter, 5.000 kilometres is, at first sig â¦ ht, no different from 5 km.
C) A zero after the decimal point is significant when bounded by significant figures to the left, for example the number 1002.0 has 5 significant figures. D) Zeros to the left of a significant figure and not bounded to the left by another significant figure are not significant. For example the number 0.01 only has one significant figure. E) Numbers ending with zero(s) written without a decimal place posses an inherent ambiguity.