decimal
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According to Fodor, the new work confirms the Standard Model to 11 decimal places and significantly narrows the chances that unknown physics is hiding in this particular measurement.
From Science Daily • May 19, 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 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
Imagine a mathematical problem, in which the true answer runs to 32 decimal places but the shortened version runs to eight.
From BBC • Jan. 27, 2025
The medal ceremony took place under the Wonder Dome, which, to honor the idea behind the second game, was operating in its spectacular Dewey decimal mode.
From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein
Vocabulary lists containing decimal
Pi Day Vocabulary
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Arithmetic
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