decimal

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By 25 minutes in, Wales had a decimal point of hope.

From BBC • Feb. 7, 2026

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

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

In fact, although I couldn’t attest any of it to three decimal places, I had a pretty good notion of the weather conditions generally, on account of I was out in them.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson