"subdecimal" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1888, Proceedings of the Physical Society, volumes 9-10, page 56",
          "text": "When we examine the units to note how many are founded upon natural magnitudes, we recognize that the second is not a subdecimal part of the solar day, but only the 36400 of that natural unit.",
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          "ref": "1994, Horst Bunke, Patrick S. P. Wang, Henry S. Baird, Document Image Analysis, page 168",
          "text": "The detection of decimal points involves three purposes: First, recognition is concerned with the integer part alone, and subdecimal digits are not recognized in most cases.",
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          "ref": "1997, Stefan Liedtke, The Languages of the 'First Nations' (page 119)",
          "text": "The fact that nearly all Central American languages have a vigesimal numeral system (partly beside a subdecimal system of counting) seems to suggest that the vigesimal system only spread in recent times, […]"
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        "That results from a division by ten or by a multiple of ten)"
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        "(mathematics) That results from a division by ten or by a multiple of ten)"
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