Answer:
Maybe some form of wordless expression?
The tenths place: 40.3 hundredths: 40.26 and thousandths:40.261 nearest whole number:40
Separate
The sentence uses the word distinctive in the context "three distinct ways". Then the excerpt lists the three ways the 10K is special. Seeing that each of those ways are separate and different it is clear that "distinct" means "separate" in this context.
