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decimal

[des-uh-muhl, des-muhl] / ˈdɛs ə məl, ˈdɛs məl /




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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

By 25 minutes in, Wales had a decimal point of hope.

From BBC • Feb. 7, 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

In July 2024, Nature issued a correction noting that rows of data were “wrongly printed as a decimal, rather than a percentage point.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 9, 2025

To lock down her spot on the four-person team, Marjory competed against five other finalists in one last Dewey decimal challenge.

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




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