Decimal Comparison: Is 0.05 Equal to 0.5?

Question

Are they the same numbers?

$0.05\stackrel{?}{=}0.5$

00:06 Are these numbers exactly the same?

00:13 Let's look at the digits in each number.

00:22 The digit five is greater than zero. So, the number is larger, and they are not the same.

00:29 And that's how we find the solution to this question.

We will add 0 to the number 0.5 in the following way:

$0.5=0.50$

And we will discover that the numbers are not identical