decimal
Example Sentences
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“I thought the opposite of that was the last five minutes of math class, when the teacher’s going on and on and on about decimals,” she said.
From Literature
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By 25 minutes in, Wales had a decimal point of hope.
From BBC
Readers see little of Ruth’s writing, but know her business transactions down to the last decimal point.
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
In July 2024, Nature issued a correction noting that rows of data were “wrongly printed as a decimal, rather than a percentage point.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.