decimal

Example Sentences

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In politics, as in many other areas of human endeavor, the decimal system assumes importance, and we often refer to hundred-day periods.

From Washington Post

LSU’s stadium radar gun is connected to its Trackman technology, meaning players, coaches and fans see the mph for each pitch with two decimals.

From Washington Post

The “Kaktovik numerals,” named after the Alaskan village where they were created, looked utterly different from decimal system numerals and functioned differently, too.

From Scientific American

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