decimal
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According to Fodor, the new work confirms the Standard Model to 11 decimal places and significantly narrows the chances that unknown physics is hiding in this particular measurement.
From Science Daily • May 19, 2026
Sharp, who worked at the Greenwich Royal Observatory and has a crater on the moon named after him, was also a mathematician who calculated pi to 72 decimal places.
From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026
“My usual rule of thumb is, move the decimal point one place to the left,” Matheson said.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2026
That little decimal point wasn’t a lot, but then, artificial intelligence was barely a decimal point’s worth of those index funds a few years ago.
From Slate • Feb. 3, 2026
The girl knew Dewey decimal codes down to the one-thousandths place.
From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein
Vocabulary lists containing decimal
Pi Day Vocabulary
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Arithmetic
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