decimal point

Example Sentences

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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

“She was so small that even the calculation for the medication had to be down to the decimal points,” Ng said.

From Washington Post

“It might be a decimal point to Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. But for Lincoln County, it adds huge impact.”

From Seattle Times

It’s just that they are very small—we’re talking about a discrepancy between experiment and theory at the 11th digit after the decimal point.

From Scientific American