Difference between "initial-scale=1" and "initial-scale=1.0"

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I see some websites uses

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">

but FreeCodeCamp requests

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">

Which one is correct or valid?
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When I look in the docs, I see:

initial-scale

Controls the zoom level when the page is first loaded. Minimum: 0.1. Maximum: 10. Default:1. Negative values: ignored.

I infer from that that both integers and decimals are valid. I would expect that 1 and 1.0 would be treated the same. I’m assuming that it converts integers to decimals to work with, since it wouldn’t work in the other direction.

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