decimal

Example Sentences

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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

Readers see little of Ruth’s writing, but know her business transactions down to the last decimal point.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 27, 2026

In recent decades, advances in computing have pushed this familiar constant far beyond the classroom, with powerful supercomputers now calculating pi to trillions of decimal places.

From Science Daily • Dec. 16, 2025

Imagine a mathematical problem, in which the true answer runs to 32 decimal places but the shortened version runs to eight.

From BBC • Jan. 27, 2025

A gangly seventh grader, a foot taller than any of her competitors, Marjory Muldauer had memorized the ten categories of the Dewey decimal system before she entered preschool.

From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein