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
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
Readers see little of Ruth’s writing, but know her business transactions down to the last decimal point.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 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
Between equations, they marvelled that their tests would be scored to the whole point, instead of to five decimal places.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
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
Since decimals are forms of fractions, locating decimals on the number line is similar to locating fractions on the number line.
From Textbooks ● May 6, 2020
Equal temperament and pure intervals are calculated as decimals and compared to each other.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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