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Writing decimals in words form .0059

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Ignore the place holder zeros before the first non-zero digit.
You have 59. This is fifty-nine.
Now look at the 9. It is in the ten-thousandth place.
Now put together fifty-nine and the ten-thousandth place, and the number is read as:

"fifty-nine ten-thousandths"
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fifty-nine ten thousandths
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