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by layer8 1255 days ago
If 0 would act as a terminator, then 1.203 would be equal to 1.2.

The thing that is actually special about the digit 0 is that it is implied for all positions for which no digit is given. That is, when we write

          1.2
we really mean

  …00000001.20000000…