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decimal

[des-uh-muhl, des-muhl] / ˈdɛs ə məl, ˈdɛs məl /




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“My usual rule of thumb is, move the decimal point one place to the left,” Matheson said.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2026

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

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

The girl knew Dewey decimal codes down to the one-thousandths place.

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




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