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A decimal number is simply a way of representing a number in such a way that the place value of each digit is ten times that of the digit to its right. So from left to right, some of the decimal pace values are:...

hundreds

tens

units

. . . . . . . decimal point

tenths

hundredths

thousandths

and so on.

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