decimal

Example Sentences

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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

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

“To earn my place on the Pacific team,” said Pranav, “I had to use the Dewey decimal code on this very book.”

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