What does this look like in digits? : 2 and 12 ten-thousandths

2. 012

The decimal places count left to right in powers of 1/10, similar to how the whole number places count right to left in powers of 10.

0.1 is one tenth.

0.01 is one hundredth.

0.001 is one thousandth.

0.0001 is one ten thousandth.