Terminating decimal

A terminating decimal is a decimal which can be expressed in a finite number of figures, or for which all figures to the right of some place are zero. (Compare repeating decimal.) It is a rational number.

Terminating Decimal Media

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  Place value of number in decimal system

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  Two hand, ten fingers.

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  Diagram of the world's earliest known multiplication table (c. 305 BCE) from the Warring States period

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  The world's earliest decimal multiplication table was made from bamboo slips, dating from 305 BCE, during the Warring States period in China.

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  The world's earliest positional decimal system Upper row vertical form Lower row horizontal form

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  counting rod decimal fraction 1/7

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  Example of Simon Stevin's decimal notation.