decimal places
After the point
Decimal places are the digits that appear after a decimal point in a number.
The first decimal place is tenths, the second hundredths, the third thousandths, and so on.
Precision increases with more decimal places: 3.1 has one decimal place, 3.14 has two, 3.14159 has five.
To round to a certain number of decimal places is to limit precision: Round your answer to two decimal places.
Small circular mark
- periodPunctuation ending sentences
- separatorSomething that divides
- commaPunctuation marking pauses
- tenthsTen equal portions
hundredths · thousandths · positional · digits · numerals · notation · format · display
Simplify to nearest value
- round upGather into a group
- round downApproximate toward zero
- truncateCut off abruptly
- approximationNear but inexact value
nearest · floor · ceiling · half up · significant figures · trim · quantization · discretize
Digits indicating measurement precision
- accuracyDegree of correctness
- digitsSingle-place numerals
- resolutionFormal decision or determination
- granularityLevel of detail
exactness · specificity · tolerance · measurement · calibration · instruments · scientific notation · floating-point
Splitting into parts
- multiplicationProduct-finding operation
- arithmeticMathematics of basic operations
- computationMathematical processing work
- quotientDivision's numerical result
remainder · fraction · ratio · percentage · conversion · calculator · spreadsheet · formula
dot
Small circular mark
tenths · hundredths · thousandths · positional · digits · numerals · notation · format · display · leading zeros
round off
Simplify to nearest value
- round upGather into a group
- round downApproximate toward zero
- truncateCut off abruptly
approximation · nearest · floor · ceiling · half up · significant figures · trim · quantization · discretize · estimation
significant figures
Digits indicating measurement precision
- accuracyDegree of correctness
- digitsSingle-place numerals
- resolutionFormal decision or determination
granularity · exactness · specificity · tolerance · measurement · calibration · instruments · scientific notation · floating-point · mantissa
division
Splitting into parts
- multiplicationProduct-finding operation
- arithmeticMathematics of basic operations
- computationMathematical processing work
quotient · remainder · fraction · ratio · percentage · conversion · calculator · spreadsheet · formula · algorithm
- decimalstenth, tenths, hundredth, hundredths, thousandth
- number formatsinteger, binary, percentage, hexadecimal, octal
- string formattingplaceholder, interpolation, percent sign, curly braces, precision
- measurement errorssystematic error, sampling error, inaccuracy, imprecision, error
- number typesprime numbers, natural numbers, whole numbers, integers, rational numbers
- scientific methodexperiment, theory, data, hypothesis, observation
decimal placeswhole numbers
Numbers without fractions
integers · significant figures · place values · round numbers
decimal placeswhole numbers
Numbers without fractions
integers · approximations · ballpark figures · order of magnitude
place, places, decade, placement, decimal, decimate, decimals, deci-, deciliter