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小数 (しょうすう, shousuu) Japanese meaning: decimal | Kotomora
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When calculating with decimals, be careful about the position of the decimal point.
Please express the answer to this problem as a decimal.
Usage patterns 〈 事こと 〉 を 小しょう 数すう で 表あらわ す to express something as a decimal
When you express this ratio as a decimal, it becomes 0.75.
分ぶん 数すう を 小しょう 数すう に 直なお す to convert a fraction into a decimal
The teacher taught us how to convert a fraction into a decimal.
小しょう 数すう 点てん 以い 下か 〈 数かず 〉 桁けた to (a certain number of) digits after the decimal point
Please give the answer to two decimal places.
小しょう 数すう を 四し 捨しゃ 五ご 入にゅう する to round off a decimal number
I rounded off the decimal in the calculation result.
Opposites 小数 is a number written with a decimal point (e.g., 0.5), while 整数 is a whole number with no fractional part (e.g., 5).
Don't confuse with 分数 expresses a value as a ratio of two integers (e.g., 1/2), whereas 小数 expresses the same value with a decimal point (e.g., 0.5), so learners often mix up which term applies to which form.
小数 (also read しょうすう) means 'decimal fraction' in math, a completely different word from 少数 'small number/minority' despite the identical pronunciation.
小数 refers to a decimal number itself (like 0.5), while 小数点 refers only to the dot symbol that separates its integer and fractional parts.
Word family· 10 decimal point; radix point
pure decimal; decimal with zero integer part
recurring decimal; repeating decimal
Etymology Compound of 小 (small) and 数 (number), literally 'small number', referring to numbers smaller than one or expressed with a decimal point.
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小しょう
数すう
finite decimal; terminating decimal
infinite decimal; nonterminating decimal
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