Because decimal numbers that can't be expressed as fractions are Irrational Numbers whereas all rational numbers can be expressed as decimals or fractions.
Thousands - Hundreds - Tens - One - Decimal - Tenth - Hundredth - Thousandth
Six figures. This term usually relates to hundreds of thousands such as "100,000" or the amount of numbers to the LEFT of the decimal point.
Ok what would this be called in thousands. 12,00000000 as in money
Remember , when starting from the decimal point, and moving to the left, each digit column is named ;- Units, Tens, Hundreds, Thousands, Tens of thousands, 'Hundreds of thousands' and ' millions. Again starting the with decimal point, and moving to the right, each digit colum is named ; 'Tenths,' , Hundredths, 'Thousandths', Ten of Thousandths', Hun dreds of thousandths, & millionths. Note the use of '-ths' in the decimal digits. As an example 1234.567. '1' is thousands '2' is hundreds '3' is tens '4' is units '5' is tenths '6' is hundredths '7' is thousandths. Such a numbers as 1,000,000 is said as 'one million; Conversely such as number as 0.000001 is said as 'one millionth'.
20,600
28.065
4,490
Because it is a decimal we say hundredths not hundreds
Place names of numbers, from the right to the left are. Units Tens Hundreds Thousands Tens of Thousands Hundreds of Thousands Millions. So 2,200 Units is '0' Tens is '0' Hundreds is '2' Thiusands is '2'
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The period to the left of the thousands period is the hundreds period. It represents numbers in the hundreds place value.
your putting the numbers in place like hundreds of thousands, millions, excetera dividing up the numbers by 100's