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decimal place

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decimal place [¦des·məl ¦plās]
(mathematics)
Reference to one of the digits following the decimal point in a decimal fraction; thekth decimal place registers units of 10-k.


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Each set contains 1,000 blocks and holders for whole numbers, four whole number place value mats, 500 tenth blocks, 500 hundredth blocks, four decimal place value mats and a teacher's guide.
Pi can be calculated to as many decimal places as desired by formulas that are sums of infinitely many terms, such as [Pi]= 4/1 - 4/3 + 4/5 - 4/7 + 4/9 -.
In our original manuscript, we provided actual values up to one decimal place, but because of overlapping of the numbers in our Figure 2, we rounded off the values.
 
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