The fraction may be simplified when the numerator and denominator have a common factor greater than one. Units are often referred to as ones. Eg, 4∙2 has 4 units and 2 tenths, or you could say 4∙2 has ...

These are decimal numbers, and dots above some of the digits make them recurring decimals. One dot means the digit under it repeats infinitely. In other words, it goes on forever (and ever and ever).

School custodian Jenna Gros is teaching a group of fourth-graders how to convert fractions to decimals. "How would you write 6/100 in decimal form?" she asks, and then waits patiently for them to come ...

Q. Thanks for your advice in the September 2001 issue on converting fractions in Excel into decimal values. But how about those of us who need to do the reverse—that is, convert decimal values into ...

Know that you know your whole numbers (整数, zhěng shù) in Chinese, you can talk about rational numbers (有理数，yǒu lǐ shù) in decimals (小数, xiǎo shù), fractions (分数, fēn shù), and percents (百分数, bǎi fēn ...

The cells in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet can hold various types of numerical data, including fractions and percentages. If some or all of your cells contain fractions, Excel enables you to convert ...

Decimal notation describes numbers using the digits 1 through 10. Binary notation describes them using just two digits, 1 and 0, where each bit in a string represents a power of 2. The right-most bit ...