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Just one. The trailing zeros are not significant.

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Integers with trailing 0s are ambiguous. You cannot differentiate between 500o as a number rounded to

the nearest thousand (1 significant digit), or

the nearest hundred (2 sig digits), or

the nearest ten (3 sig digits) or

the nearest unit (4 sig digits).

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