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place value a la shmoop speedy O'Connor has been training all [Speedy running outdoors]

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spring for the Summer Olympics to practice he's been running around and

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around his parents living room honestly it's driving them nuts makes it

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really hard to watch television at last the big day arrives and speedy runs his [Speedy running on a track]

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best event, the 400 meters it was a close finish so he eagerly looks up at

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the board to find his exact time only to see that he ran the race in four hundred

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seventy two point three seconds huh that can't be right if you divide that [Girl shaking her head]

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number by 60 it works out to almost eight minutes and there's no way he was

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that slow while Phillip the timekeeper must be responsible for this...

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that guy was always having decimal issues speedy goes to talk to Phillip [Speedy speaks to Philip]

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and give him a piece of his mind as it stood speedy showed a time of 472.3

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seconds that's a 4 in the hundredths place seven in a tens place a 2 in the

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ones and a 3 in the tenths place...Speedy alerted the timekeeper to his error but

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then overcompensated by moving the decimal two spaces to the left now the

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board showed that speedy had run his race in a time of 4.723 seconds

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that's a 4 in the ones place a 7 in the tenths place a 2 in the hundredths place

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and a 3 in the thousandths place it's a great time but not humanly possible so [Robots running]

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speedy asked the timekeeper to try again this time the timekeeper moved the

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decimal only one spot to the right giving speedy

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a time of 47.23 seconds that's more like it looking up the board

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speedy sees that swifty Stephenson posted a time of 47.18 seconds

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rapido Roosevelt posted a time of 47.19

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seconds and nippy Nottingham's posted a time of 47.22

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seconds just barely edging out speedy and keeping him off [Speedy stood beside podium]

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the podium oh well to give you an idea of how small that number in the hundreds

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place can be check out how little difference there was between the four

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runners one hundredths of a second is all that separated speedy and nippy and

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there are a hundred of those in a single second talk about close all right it's

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disappointing but speedy is a competitor and he's not gonna let this get him down [Speedy running around a couch with his parents sat]

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it's back to his parents living room for another four years

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