decimal
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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 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
Although electronic chip timers record runners' completed laps, the unfinished final loop is measured - to three decimal places - by a race adjudicator with a wheel straight from a 1990s PE lesson.
From BBC • Oct. 8, 2024
“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
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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