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decimal (adj.)
c.1600, from Medeival Latin
decimalis
"of tithes or tenths," from Latin
decimus
"tenth," from
decem
"ten" (see
ten
). Applied to Arabic notation before modern sense of "decimal fractions" emerged. As a noun from 1640s.
