decimal
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The new Fed chairman, Kevin Warsh, has said he isn’t interested in splitting hairs, adding that he prefers to focus on how the inflation rate looks “to the left of the decimal point.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
What mattered was mostly the initial integer, or what was “to the left of the decimal point,” rather than anything more exact.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 17, 2026
Sharp, who worked at the Greenwich Royal Observatory and has a crater on the moon named after him, was also a mathematician who calculated pi to 72 decimal places.
From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2026
“My usual rule of thumb is, move the decimal point one place to the left,” Matheson said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2026
“All you have to re-member is that every ordinary fraction can be converted into an infinite periodic decimal fraction. “This is the craziest family.”
From "A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeleine L'Engle
Despite leaving school at a young age and initially finding terms like "decimals" and "algebra" intimidating, Mr Elsom is said to have quite a talent for working with figures.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2025
The leaders of those and other rate stats — expressed with decimals — are now sprinkled with Negro League standouts.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2024
Eventually she leads us toward more abstract concepts such as the polar coordinate system, a graphical approach to defining a point using distance and angle, as well as irrational numbers and decimals that repeat infinitely.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 20, 2023
When we work with decimals, it is often necessary to round the number to the nearest required place value.
From Textbooks ● May 6, 2020
Understanding fractions, and decimals, and percentages, and even geometry—all that was practical.
From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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Pi Day Vocabulary
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Perfect Ten: Dec, Cent, Mille
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Arithmetic
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