decimals

This is actually a very intuitive argument for why the reals (oops I mean decimals) are not countable.

Banks typically work in five or six decimal places, and not the 2 decimals you can use.

And then you can extend it to decimals, and have an infinite string of zeros after the decimal point.

Base 10 also makes things a lot easier because calculations are simply a matter of adding/removing zeroes/decimals.

Commas and periods are both used for thousands and decimals sometimes interchangeably within the same country.

Also precision of scores is visibly limited, but for final ranking all decimals count.

In case you ever need it, here is Pi to a million decimals.

Each extra digit seems to require ~ ten times as many decimals.

The article suggested hardware BCD (packed decimals) was superior to floating point.

I got it right, using decimals - I was probably a little too exhaustive...

I did test with negatives, but I did not think to test with decimals.

Or are bignums and decimals the same thing?

Decimals and negative numbers still get you a "yes" as long as you obey the rule.

Also, it is always nice to have localized websites...us americans aren't used to seeing decimals reversed with thousand separators, for instance: "0,0004%"

Identify LED display pins through experiment -- The display turns out to be a rather typical common-cathode 4-digit display, with a partial 5th "digit" controlling the colon and decimals).

You'll be crippled trying to learn things like decimals, fractions, exponents or god forbid algebra or calculus if whenever you have to add you have to be "making ten" in your head.

Ignore the changed doctests involving Decimals, I had to change those to get them to pass on my machine but they're not related to me fixes.