decimal
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The new Fed chairman, Kevin Warsh, has said he isn’t interested in splitting hairs, adding that he prefers to focus on how the inflation rate looks “to the left of the decimal point.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
What mattered was mostly the initial integer, or what was “to the left of the decimal point,” rather than anything more exact.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 17, 2026
"I was one decimal point away from being diabetic," Doran, who lives in Ottawa, Canada, told the BBC.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026
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
Kyle and Akimi hung back while Sierra and Miguel dug through the book bins with a couple dozen other eager Dewey decimal decoders.
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 we work with decimals, it is often necessary to round the number to the nearest required place value.
From Textbooks ● May 6, 2020
Elementary schools by and large do manage to teach the basic algorithms for multiplication and division, addition and subtraction, as well as methods for handling fractions, decimals, and 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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