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A quality control inspector is recording a tolerance measurement described in a technical manual as 'five and twenty-four thousandths' millimeters. To correctly write this value in numeric form, the inspector must recall that the word 'thousandths' indicates there should be exactly ____ decimal places to the right of the decimal point.
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