@dharmik yeah, people in school are often confused about this. Decimal refering to a number being in base ten cf octal being in base 8, not in having a decimal point. Obviously the natural base being octal

@dharmik Abbreviations often lead to confusion, especially when one isn't even aware something was abbreviated. The use of "decimal" in primary school was just short for "decimal fraction". See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal#Decimal_fractions