I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
decimal point
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Change ten decimals to a fraction Aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh! is my reaction.
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If a comma or a semi-colon is encountered further down the print list, the format reverts to decimal .
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Most low attainers lack knowledge of the relationship between metric units and they also have problems with decimals.
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Neither the input nor the output of a Turing machine can, strictly speaking, be an infinite decimal .
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The only tasks where high success rates were obtained were those where the pupil can effectively treat decimals as whole numbers.
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This is being done for a number of key mathematical topics such as decimals, ratio, negative numbers and elementary algebra.
II. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
digit
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A sequence of decimal digits input from the keyboard is formed into the corresponding decimal whole number or zero.
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This gives a maximum accuracy of just over 9 decimal digits .
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Character handling on word-oriented computers Most modern computers attempt to provide facilities for manipulating strings of characters and possibly decimal digits .
place
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A computer error moved a decimal place one unit to the right.
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Between equations, they marvelled that their tests would be scored to the whole point, instead of to five decimal places .
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The general picture obtained for decimal place value is not a very happy one.
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F Format Numbers are printed with a fixed number of decimal places .
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In fact the sum is 0.99, the error being due to rounding to two decimal places .
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The first two questions require an answer with two decimal places although there is only one in the question.
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The third question requires only one decimal place to be given and even this could be avoided by giving the answer 832.
point
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Forbes can apparently spout the results of all presidential elections to the nearest decimal point .
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The cursor is on the decimal point . 5. type 1, 056, 090.
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The answer is ... to so many decimal points , plus or minus so much.
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The longest number in the second column will be six characters to the left of the decimal point .
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The decimal point is introduced after every three digits; for example, 631.589.2 Hydroponics.
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WordPerfect will stop alignment at a period, just as if you entered a decimal point .
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We also multiplied average scores by ten to eliminate decimal points , and turn them into percentages.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Alternatively this can be done by decimal subdivision.
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As the summary table above indicates, virtually all of the basic tasks concerning decimal number concepts proved to be extremely difficult.
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Each sub-system of the model was given a decimal code so that an audit trail could be established for the subsequent detailed analysis.
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Forbes can apparently spout the results of all presidential elections to the nearest decimal point.
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Likewise, finite decimal expressions of unrestricted length give us nothing new, since these are just particular cases of fractions.
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The general picture obtained for decimal place value is not a very happy one.
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This gives a maximum accuracy of just over 9 decimal digits.
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We do not follow the decimal system.