"Decimal" is a word in ENGLISH
A number expressed in the scale of tens; specifically, and
almost exclusively, used as synonymous with a decimal fraction.
Of or pertaining to decimals; numbered or proceeding by
tens; having a tenfold increase or decrease, each unit being ten times
the unit next smaller; as, decimal notation; a decimal coinage.
The idea was that you could grow a system like the Internet one network at a time and then interconnect them. In some sense, the most important thing was the invention of the architecture protocols that enabled the Internet.
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By tens; by means of decimals.
Read the complete definitionContaining ten; tenfold; proceeding by tens; as, the denary, or decimal, scale.
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