A point in maths

Usage examples of decimal.

Beyond them great racks of volumes, decimal system markers lit in neon, stretched far away into what was the illusion of a Borgesian infinity.

For example, the level of precision in human perception never exceeds 10000 values in a 1-dimensional range of values, and 4 decimal digits would be enough to store a value from a set of 10000 possible values.

A lethal dose of medication administered to a child because a harried physician omitted a decimal point.

In these calculations decimals are freely employed, and students should make themselves familiar with the methods of using them.

Getting the littlest finger on each hand cut off just because polydactylism has only a five decimal point occurrence on this planet?

Remember that the first four platinum weights give the figures of the first place of decimals, the second four give the second place, and that the third and fourth places are given by the rider.

They could easily have big establishments whole thing quite painless out of all the taxes give every child born five quid at compound interest up to twentyone five per cent is a hundred shillings and five tiresome pounds multiply by twenty decimal system encourage people to put by money save hundred and ten and a bit twentyone years want to work it out on paper come to a tidy sum more than you think.

The advantage of metricized units is that it supplies humanity with a unified chronometry that involves little more than decimal point shifts.

Though, to be sure, on the one occasion when Philip had visited the Rhine and Switzerland, he had grumbled most consumedly from Ostend to Grindelwald, at those very decimal coins which the stranger seemed to admire so much, and had wondered why the deuce Belgium, Germany, Holland, and Switzerland could not agree among themselves upon a uniform coinage.

As to Tom, Charley's brother, I am really afraid to say what he did at school in cyphering, but I think it was Decimals.

Complex and improper fractions and recurring decimals are not allowed.

No decimals are allowed and the nought may not appear in the hundreds place.

The monologue on decimals supported the haunting possibility that Nüt was exactly what he said he was.

He could monitor the ship's progress to whatever decimal place from these thousands of miles away, the view on his computer monitor like that from the eye of a digitised seagull.

Notation by sixty also had the advantage over the decimal system in all work involving fractions because sixty has more divisors than ten.