A millimetre is a fixed distance, whereas a decimal is a way of writing a value. The question is like asking if a foot is bigger than a fraction.
A foot may be bigger than a fraction of a yard or a mile, but it is certainly not bigger than a proper fraction of an inch.
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A millimeter is 1,000 time SMALLER than a meter.
Unit of measurement 1000 times less than the millimeter is the micrometer. Unit of measurement 1,000,000 times less than the millimeter is the nanometer.
Micrometer A micrometer (also called a micron) is 1000 times smaller than a millimeter.
You only get a smaller decimal if you do 0. something because your multiplying it by 0! oust like with the whole numbers, if you times something by 0 it gets smaller. only with a decimal, there's are still numbers less than the 0 so it gets smaller and smaller until you have a total of 0!
A staph bacteria is about 1,000 times smaller than a millimeter, so it is measured in micrometers. The actual size is 0.6 micrometers.