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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The position of a digit to the right of a decimal point, usually identified by successive ascending ordinal numbers with the digit immediately to the right of the decimal point being first.
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- noun arithmetic the position of a
digit to the right of thedecimal point in adecimal number .
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