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.

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.

The chances — percentage-wise — of him ever making the ring of honor probably start with a decimal point.