Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Fractional Decimal Notation


Introduction to fraction decimal notation:

Let us discuss the fraction decimal notation. The fraction notation is defined the part of whole number. The fraction is generally specifying two parts. The first part is numerator and second part is denominator. The numerator part is top part and denominator is bottom part. The decimal notation is same as the fraction notation. Decimal notation has decimal point. The example is 3.16.
Fraction Decimal Notation:

The fraction notation is numerator / denominator. Example is 4 / 6. The top number is known as the numerator and bottom number is known as the denominator.

* The 4 is called numerator.
* The 6 is called the denominator part.

The example of the fraction number is 9 / 7, 5/ 6 and etc.

The decimal point is very important part of the decimal notation. The example of the decimal notation is 63.147.

* The 63 is called the whole number.
* The dot (.) is called the decimal point.
* The 1 is called the tenth place of the number. The meaning is 1/10.
* The 4 is called the hundredth place of the number. The meaning is 4/100.
* The 7 is called the thousandth place of the number. The meaning is 7/1000.

The fraction notation is written the decimal notation. The example is 5/7 is fraction notation. The decimal notation of 5/7 is 0.71.

I hope the above explanation was useful, now let me explain about whole number definition.

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