Decimal is the name for our common base-ten numeral system. It may also refer to non-integer values expressed with a decimal point.
Decimal is the base-10 positional numeral system. It is the ordinary numeral system we use; it can be used to represent both integers and (using a decimal point) non-integer values.
Related tags
- math
- Other numeral systems: binary (base 2), ternary (base 3), octal (base 8), decimal (base 10), hexadecimal/hexadecimal-notation (base 16)
- floating-point