terminating decimal

A terminating decimal is a decimal fraction which has a limited number of digits. In other words, the digits do not repeat forever.

An example of this is , as = 0.25. It has only two decimal places.

We can work out whether a fraction will give a terminating decimal by checking to see if we can divide the denominator by 2 or 5.

There are examples of terminating decimals opposite.

The opposite of terminating decimal is recurring decimal.