Decimal meaning

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Decimal is defined as a system of numbers or currency where everything is based on the number ten, or on parts of ten.

3.432 is an example of a number described as a decimal number.

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A linear array of digits that contains a single period, called the decimal point, is possibly preceded by a minus sign (−), and represents a real number, with each successive digit to the right of the decimal point indicating a multiple of the next negative power of 10, and each successive digit to the left of the decimal point indicating a multiple of the next non-negative power of ten, beginning with 100 = 1. For example, 245.3 represents the real number (2 × 102 ) + (4 × 101 ) + (5 × 100 ) + (3 × 10−1 ) = 200 + 40 + 5 +310 , and −1.04 represents the real number (−1 × 100 ) + (−4 × 10−2 ).
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Such an array of digits in which there are no nonzero digits to the left of the decimal point, representing a real number between −1 and 1.
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Expressed or expressible as a decimal.
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Based on 10.
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Numbered or ordered by groups of 10.
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Of or based on the number 10; progressing by tens.
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A fraction with an unwritten denominator of 10 or some power of 10, indicated by a point (decimal point) before the numerator (Ex.: .5 =510)
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Any number written using a decimal point.
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A representation of a real number using the base ten and decimal notation, such as 201.4, 3.89, or 0.0006.
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A decimal fraction.
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Meaning 10. The numbering system used by humans, which is based on 10 digits. In contrast, computers use binary numbers because it is easier to design electronic systems that can maintain two states rather than 10.
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(arithmetic, computing, uncountable) The number system that uses the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9.
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(countable) A number expressed in this system.
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(informal) A decimal place.

Pi has a value of 3.141, to three decimals.

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(informal) A numeral written as a concatenation of successive negative powers of the base.
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(informal) A decimal point.
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(arithmetic, computing) Concerning numbers expressed in decimal or mathematical calculations performed using decimal.
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The definition of a decimal is a number written with a decimal point and a remainder that represents portions of ten.

An example of a decimal is 2.5 which is two and five tenths.

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A number written using the base 10.
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Origin of decimal

Medieval Latin decimālis of tenths or tithes from Latin decima a tenth part or tithe from decem ten dekm̥ in Indo-European roots

Sentence Examples

  • In these cases the digit itself, or decimal multiples, seem to have been used.

  • 8), the continual mention of large decimal numbers of shekels in the earlier books, and the certain fact of 100 shekels being = mina.

  • The first national coinage was begun in 1822, and the decimal system was adopted in 1863.

  • which stand as (1/6)th of the other decimal series based on the digit.

  • The great spread of the Phoenician weight on the Mediterranean, of the Persian in Asia Minor and of the Assyrian in Egypt are evident cases; and that the decimal weights of the laws of Manu (43) are decidedly not Assyrian or Persian, but on exactly the Phoenician standard, is a curious evidence of trade by water and not overland.

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