decimal

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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

This number, represented by the symbol π, begins with 3.14 and the decimals go on infinitely without patterns and without ever repeating.

From Seattle Times

Ada conjures the engine’s clanging cogs and waves of flipping switches “like tumbling water, but not water, information, decimals, symbols flowing and gliding and dancing.”

From Washington Post

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

From Washington Post