What does terminating decimals mean?
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What does terminating decimals mean?
Types of decimals.
Decimals, percentages, and fractions are three different ways to express numbers that are less than one. There are three different type of decimals: terminating, repeating, and non-terminating.
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View this answerA decimal number that stops at some point in time is a terminating decimal.
There are really long decimals such as 3.897263040850. Though it is a...
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Chapter 14 / Lesson 1Read the decimal definition and see how decimal place value works. See examples to learn how to use decimal notation to write fractions and whole numbers.
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