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decimal fractions
n. (decimal fraction English)
Usage examples of "decimal fractions".
IN these grammar schools shall be taught the Latin and Greek languages, English grammar, geography, and the higher part of numerical arithmetick, to wit, vulgar and decimal fractions, and the extraction of the square and cube roots.
As usual they had made a faulty manoeuvre, having considered certain decimal fractions of the transition calculations to be 'negligible'.
We go to our great tin goddess, the modern Pythia, and let her spill out her oracles in dead numbers and decimal fractions!