A decimal place of a number (a real number) is the position of a digit in its decimal expansion relative to the decimal point. Let us write as a decimal number:
where each of the and is a digit in the decimal system (one of ). In this decimal expansion,
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the -th decimal place to the left of the decimal point is the position of , and
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the -th decimal place to the right of the decimal place is the position of .
The digits and are called the decimal place values. is the decimal place value corresponding to the -th decimal place to the left of the decimal point, while is the decimal place value corresponding to the -th decimal place to the right of the decimal point.
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