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Aielyn said:
Teeqoz said:

I've never heard that word before. :/

While the language of math itself is international, some words which are related to math aren't, so I don't really know what that means :-3

"Truncate" means stop after a certain point. A truncated decimal is one that stops after a certain point - in base 10, it's fractions whose denominators are a power of 2 multiplied by a power of 5.

1/3 has only one decimal representation - it's not a truncated decimal.

Oh okay, I get it.