decimals

Cultural  

1. Fractional numbers (see fraction) expressed as whole numbers of tenths, hundredths, thousandths, and so on. One-half, for example, is 0.5 in decimal terms.

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Example Sentences

Locate Decimals on the Number Line In the following exercises, locate the number on the number line.

From Textbooks • Apr. 22, 2020

On the very day when he and I were being initiated into the mysteries of Decimals, he whispered to me in class, "I say, I wonder how people found out the weight of the planets."

From All Men are Ghosts by Jacks, L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall)

The Rules of Practice, Interest, and performed in the more facil manner by Decimals, then hitherto hath been published; the excellency and new practice and use of Logarithmes, Nepayres Bones.

From The Compleat Cook Expertly Prescribing the Most Ready Wayes, Whether Italian, Spanish or French, for Dressing of Flesh and Fish, Ordering Of Sauces or Making of Pastry by M., W.

Recurring Decimals are a particular kind of series, which arise from the expression of a fraction as a decimal.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" by Various

Decimals were not so alluring since the May flowers had blossomed.

From 'Lizbeth of the Dale by MacGregor, Mary Esther Miller