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n. (decimal place English)
Usage examples of "decimal places".
If we work to two decimal places, there are 100 possibilities: 00 up to 99.
If we work to three decimal places, there are 1000 possibilities: 000 up to 999.
If we work to umpty decimal places, there are 10^umpty possibilities.
If the decimal places go on `for ever', we first must ask `what kind of for ever?
Obviously, the next question is going to involve the next set of decimal places.
The Captain had transposed an eight and a three in the fifth and sixth decimal places&mdash.
The Captain had transposed an eight and a three in the fifth and sixth decimal places--the set up would look okay unless one knew the correct figures.
The twins were right together to six decimal places and checked with their father and grandmother to five, but Meade's answer bore no resemblance to any of the others.
Late that night I had us in n-space, with my pilot computer sniffing out the last decimal places for the first leg to Landfall.