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
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
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
I shared my love of x and y variables, and of integers, decimal points, and fractions.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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
He would sleep all through the night while she was figuring with decimals.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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Pi Day Vocabulary
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