decimal

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.

The shared inconvenience grew into a community on Reddit, where people swap tips, such as entering the address as a decimal — 101.5 Main Street — or spelling it out as Hogan does.

Despite the ridiculous smallness of this constant -- expressed in everyday units of kilograms, metres and seconds it takes a value that starts at the 34th decimal place after the comma -- the fact that Planck's constant is not exactly zero is enough to compute such quantum effects.

Many people use 3.14159, but even that’s not quite right, because the digits to the right of the decimal point in pi go on forever.

Long before computers, historic scientists such as Isaac Newton spent many hours calculating decimal places by hand.