decimal

Example Sentences

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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

Magnitude refers to the size of an earthquake, with increases marked as decimal points.

From BBC • Feb. 6, 2025

The team made their way around the balcony circling the Dewey decimal doors.

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