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  2. English numerals - Wikipedia

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    1 + 1 ⁄ 2 is "one and a half" 6 + 1 ⁄ 4 is "six and a quarter" 7 + 5 ⁄ 8 is "seven and five eighths" A space is placed to mark the boundary between the whole number and the fraction part unless superscripts and subscripts are used; for example: 9 1/2; 9 + 1 ⁄ 2 ⁠9 + 1 / 2

  3. Significant figures - Wikipedia

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    with the last significant figures in the ones place, tenths place, ones place, and thousands place respectively. (2 here is assumed not an exact number.) For the first example, the first term has its last significant figure in the thousandths place and the second term has its last significant figure in the ones place. The leftmost or largest ...

  4. Ordinal numeral - Wikipedia

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    This system results in "two thirds" for 2 ⁄ 3 and "fifteen thirty-seconds" for 15 ⁄ 32. This system is normally used for denominators less than 100 and for many powers of 10 . Examples include "six ten-thousandths" for 6 ⁄ 10,000 and "three hundredths" for 0.03.

  5. Thousandth of an inch - Wikipedia

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    A thousandth of an inch is a derived unit of length in a system of units using inches.Equal to 1 ⁄ 1000 of an inch, a thousandth is commonly called a thou / ˈ θ aʊ / (used for both singular and plural) or, particularly in North America, a mil (plural mils).

  6. Positional notation - Wikipedia

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    0b11111001/10 = 0b11000 R: 0b1001 (0b1001 = "9" for ones place) 0b11000/10 = 0b10 R: 0b100 (0b100 = "4" for tens) 0b10/10 = 0b0 R: 0b10 (0b10 = "2" for hundreds) For the fractional part, conversion can be done by taking digits after the radix point (the numerator), and dividing it by the implied denominator in the target radix.

  7. Hundredth - Wikipedia

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    In arithmetic, a hundredth is a single part of something that has been divided equally into a hundred parts. [1] For example, a hundredth of 675 is 6.75. In this manner it is used with the prefix "centi-" such as in centimeter.

  8. Decimal separator - Wikipedia

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    The Indian numbering system is somewhat more complex: It groups the rightmost three digits altogether (until the hundreds place) and thereafter groups by sets of two digits. For example, one trillion (on the short scale ; a million millions) would thus be written as 10,00,00,00,00,000 or 10 kharab .

  9. Numerical digit - Wikipedia

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    the 4 to the right of the tenths place is in the hundredths place, and is called the hundredths digit. [10] The total value of the number is 1 ten, 0 ones, 3 tenths, and 4 hundredths. The zero, which contributes no value to the number, indicates that the 1 is in the tens place rather than the ones place.