What is a decimal?

We use decimal numbers when a number is smaller than a whole number. A decimal number is a fractional number.

For example, a number that is smaller than 3 but bigger than 2 is in between.

In decimals it looks like this:

2  2.1  2.2  2.3  2.4  2.5  2.6  2.7  2.8  2.9  3

Smallest                                           Biggest

 

2.0 is the same as 2

3.0 is the same as 3

 

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