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decimal

[des-uh-muhl, des-muhl] / ˈdɛs ə məl, ˈdɛs məl /




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Another thing many TAM estimates have in common is that they’re oddly specific, often going out a decimal point.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

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

Sharp, who worked at the Greenwich Royal Observatory and has a crater on the moon named after him, was also a mathematician who calculated pi to 72 decimal places.

From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2026

The Dewey decimal doors would open in one hour and forty-five minutes.

From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein

Despite leaving school at a young age and initially finding terms like "decimals" and "algebra" intimidating, Mr Elsom is said to have quite a talent for working with figures.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 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

How does knowing about U.S. money help you learn about decimals?

From Textbooks ● May 6, 2020

I mean, who really cares about dividing decimals or contrasting the parts of plants, animals, and one-celled organisms when you’ve had the kind of morning I have?

From "The Misfits" by James Howe


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