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Defining Terminating Decimals in Technical Specifications

A quality control technician at a manufacturing plant is documenting measurement specifications for a new component. In the technical report, the technician classifies several values as 'terminating decimals.' Define what a terminating decimal is in this professional context. In your explanation, describe what occurs during the mathematical process of long division for these values and explain the specific reason why every terminating decimal is classified as a rational number.

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