decimal
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It frees a student from memorizing all formulas, such as pi to the fourth decimal, but not from knowing whether an answer is right, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
It reminds me of the joke that you know an economist has a sense of humor if he uses decimal points.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 4, 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
“Give me the Dewey decimal number for ‘freedom of speech,’” said Tabatha Otto, a librarian from Lincolnshire, Illinois.
From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein
Only resounding wins over their nearest rivals now return a few more decimals.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 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 dividing signed decimals, first determine the sign of the quotient and then divide as if the numbers were both positive.
From Textbooks ● May 6, 2020
Unfortunately, they don’t do as effective a job in teaching when to add or subtract, when to multiply or divide, or how to convert from fractions to decimals or percentages.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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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