10 example sentences using decimal.
Decimal used in a sentence
Decimal in a sentence as a noun
At 3 decimals, there were more dups, with the most being 6.
At 4 decimals, there were a handful that had 2 dups.
This is a systemic fuckup, not a shifted decimal point.
At 5 decimal points, there were no duplicates.
Suppose you want a unit fraction 1/n with decimals that cycle through the 4-digit sequence abcd.
Decimal in a sentence as an adjective
Three decimal places is awfully high precision for a measurement of people.
Problems like no standardized threading support or decimal type could be resolved in the future.
At this point I still had 5672 uniques. At 2 decimals, the most had 89 and I had 2468 uniques. At 1 it really went down, obviously, and I was down to 253 uniques.
In case anyone is perplexed by the "-6" comment, the decimal number -6 represented as a signed int in twos complement is 11111111111111111111111111111010 When interpreted as an unsigned int, this is 4,294,967,290 = 2^32 - 6.
The numbers in columns A,D and E have 2 significant digits after the decimal point, whereas the numbers in columns B,C and F have 13 significant digits after decimal point!
Decimal definitions
a proper fraction whose denominator is a power of 10
a number in the decimal system
numbered or proceeding by tens; based on ten; "the decimal system"
See also: denary