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
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
He was also chief secretary to the Treasury as the UK prepared to move to decimal currency.
From BBC • Oct. 25, 2025
I moved the decimal point without using pencil nor paper and said, “One tenth of a hundred and twenty-two years comes to twelve full years and two-tenths of a year, sir.”
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
Vocabulary lists containing decimal
Pi Day Vocabulary
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Perfect Ten: Dec, Cent, Mille
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Arithmetic
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