Crossword clues for decimal
decimal
- Type of point or fraction
- The point of mathematics?
- Ten-based system
- Point made in math class?
- Point in math class?
- Of tenths
- Of ten
- Number with a point
- Number that has a point
- Like NYSE prices since January 2001
- It's written with a point in the U.S. but not in France
- It's never pointless
- Dot between dollars and cents
- Dewey's house band?
- Based on 10
- A point in maths
- Mark, fractionally wrong on medical tip
- Ten at heart of it, my cadet smiles, enigmatically
- It usually has a point
- Point of math
- What's the point?
- There's a point to it
- A proper fraction whose denominator is a power of 10
- One with an important point?
- Proceeding by 10's
- Counting system with a point to it
- In base ten
- In base 10
- Top of loft in the morning frozen up: that's beside the point
- It has a point
- Based on ten
- The point of math class
- Of 10-based system
- Difference between a lot and a little, maybe
- What's the point of arithmetic?
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Decimal \Dec"i*mal\, a. [F. d['e]cimal (cf. LL. decimalis), fr. L. decimus tenth, fr. decem ten. See Ten, and cf. Dime.] Of or pertaining to decimals; numbered or proceeding by tens; having a tenfold increase or decrease, each unit being ten times the unit next smaller; as, decimal notation; a decimal coinage.
Decimal arithmetic, the common arithmetic, in which numeration proceeds by tens.
Decimal fraction, a fraction in which the denominator is some power of 10, as 2/10, [frac25x100], and is usually not expressed, but is signified by a point placed at the left hand of the numerator, as .2, .25.
Decimal point, a dot or full stop at the left of a decimal fraction. The figures at the left of the point represent units or whole numbers, as 1.05.
Decimal \Dec"i*mal\, n. A number expressed in the scale of tens; specifically, and almost exclusively, used as synonymous with a decimal fraction.
Circulating decimal, or Circulatory decimal, a decimal fraction in which the same figure, or set of figures, is constantly repeated; as, 0.354354354; -- called also recurring decimal, repeating decimal, and repetend.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, from Medeival Latin decimalis "of tithes or tenths," from Latin decimus "tenth," from decem "ten" (see ten). Applied to Arabic notation before modern sense of "decimal fractions" emerged. As a noun from 1640s.
Wiktionary
a. (context arithmetic computing English) Concerning numbers expressed in decimal or mathematical calculations performed using decimal. n. 1 (context arithmetic computing uncountable English) The number system that uses the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9. 2 (context countable English) A number expressed in this system. 3 (context informal English) A decimal place. 4 (context informal English) A numeral written as a concatenation of successive negative powers of the base. 5 (context informal English) A decimal point.
WordNet
adj. numbered or proceeding by tens; based on ten; "the decimal system" [syn: denary]
divided by tens or hundreds; "a decimal fraction"; "decimal coinage"
n. a proper fraction whose denominator is a power of 10 [syn: decimal fraction]
a number in the decimal system
Wikipedia
The decimal numeral system (also called base 10 or occasionally denary) has ten as its base. It is the numerical base most widely used by modern civilizations.
Decimal notation often refers to a base 10 positional notation such as the Hindu-Arabic numeral system or rod calculus; however, it can also be used more generally to refer to non-positional systems such as Roman or Chinese numerals which are also based on powers of ten.
A decimal number, or just decimal, refers to any number written in decimal notation, although it is more commonly used to refer to numbers that have a fractional part separated from the integer part with a decimal separator (e.g. 11.25).
A decimal may be a terminating decimal, which has a finite fractional part (e.g. 15.600); a repeating decimal, which has an infinite (non-terminating) fractional part made up of a repeating sequence of digits (e.g. 5.123144); or an infinite decimal, which has a fractional part that neither terminates nor has an infinitely repeating pattern (e.g. 3.14159265...). Decimal fractions have terminating decimal representations and other fractions have repeating decimal representations, whereas irrational numbers have infinite non-repeating decimal representations.
Decimal could mean:
- The decimal or base ten numeral system
- Decimal (unit), an obsolete unit of measure in India and Bangladesh
- Decimal data type, a data type used to represent non-repeating decimal fractions
- Decimal fraction, a fraction whose denominator is a power of ten
- Decimal representation, a mathematical expression for a number written as a series
- Decimal separator, used to mark the boundary between the ones and tenths place in numbers (e.g. "12.4"), often referred to as a "decimal"
A decimal (also spelled decimel) is a unit of area in India and Bangladesh approximately equal to 1/100 acre (40.46 m²). After metrication in the mid-20th century by both countries, the unit became officially obsolete. Especially among the rural population in Northern Bangladesh and West Bengal, it is still in use. 1 decimal in Bihar equals to 435 sq feet.
The unit is also commonly used in Uganda, especially in urban areas where land-sales are booming and traded plots are getting smaller and smaller.
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.