During 30 years as a professional statistician, I have never come across such a strange practice. The only thing that I can think of is that it is a flawed attempt to avoid division by zero. That, of course, is based on an assumption that the singularity is at zero.
0000001 000011111 0001110 0000001 000011111 0001110 0000001 000011111 0001110 0000001 000011111 0001110 0000001 000011111 0001110 0000001 000011111 0001110 0000001 000011111 0001110 0000001 000011111 000000001 000011111 000111001110
0000001=1=10^0 .0000001=10^-7
1 erg
0.000001 = 0
.0000001%
There is none.
.0000001
10 to the power of -8
.0000001 cents
Yea try 0000001
zero thousand point one
one The leading zeroes have no effect on the number.