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The new Fed chairman, Kevin Warsh, has said he isn’t interested in splitting hairs, adding that he prefers to focus on how the inflation rate looks “to the left of the decimal point.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 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

“My usual rule of thumb is, move the decimal point one place to the left,” Matheson said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 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

“Those are the ten categories of the Dewey decimal system,” whispered Miguel, sounding awestruck.

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

Other intellectuals of the Gupta era proved themselves in the field of mathematics by using decimals and a mark to denote the concept of zero for precise measurements and recordkeeping.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

Unfortunately, they don’t do as effective a job in teaching when to add or subtract, when to multiply or divide, or how to convert from fractions to decimals or percentages.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos