decimal point

Example Sentences

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To the credit of ancient elites, Sanskrit's unbending specificity and its introduction of a decimal point indeed made it highly unseful as a universal language between diverse speakers.

From Salon

The agency also removed a graphic that had highlighted a 20 percent increase in the girls reporting sexual violence in the previous four years; the figure using decimal points is 17.8 percent.

From Washington Post

The government is exasperated by this, with some senior figures initially assuming the demand was a typo, that there was a decimal point missing and it should read 3.5%.

From BBC

The school’s math progress may not look like much: a small improvement amounting to a single decimal point increase from spring 2019 to the spring of this year, according to state test results.

From New York Times

The difference may be only a few decimal points, but an earthquake’s energy is measured exponentially.

From Los Angeles Times