A name for finite rational numbers

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Is there a name for finite rational numbers?

Here is what I mean:

3 / 2 = 1.5       - this number is finite
1 / 3 ~ 0.3333... - this number is not finite, it has infinite "3"

I need a term to "catch" the first type of numbers, but not the second.
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I think you mean terminating decimals.

(All rational numbers are finite. Some have only infinitely long decimal representations, though.)