decimal

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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

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

In July 2024, Nature issued a correction noting that rows of data were “wrongly printed as a decimal, rather than a percentage point.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 9, 2025

Although electronic chip timers record runners' completed laps, the unfinished final loop is measured - to three decimal places - by a race adjudicator with a wheel straight from a 1990s PE lesson.

From BBC • Oct. 8, 2024

“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