Decimal numbers that may be expressed as a fraction, the denominator of which is a power of ten. For example, the numerals formula_5 represent the fractions , , . More generally, a decimal with digits after the separator represents the fraction with denominator , whose numerator is the integer obtained by removing the separator. Expressed as a fully reduced fraction, the decimal numbers are those, whose denominator is a product of a power of 2 by a power of 5. Thus the smallest denominators of decimal numbers are The "integer part", or "integral part" of a decimal is the integer written
Dot-decimal notation leading zero, some will interpret the number as octal. A POSIX-conforming variant of "inet_aton", the "inet_pton()" function, supports only the 4-decimal variant of IP addresses. IP addresses in the dot-decimal notation are also presented in CIDR notation, in which the IP address is suffixed with a slash and a number, used to specify the length of the associated routing prefix. For example, 127.0.0.1/8 specifies that the IP address has an 8-bit routing prefix, and therefore the subnet mask 255.0.0.0. Dot-decimal notation Dot-decimal notation is a presentation format for numerical data. It consists of a string of decimal numbers, each pair