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There are those whose minds are satisfied with the decillionth dilution of a scientific proof.

From Medical Essays, 1842-1882 by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Hahnemann tells us that a single dose of the 30th dilution of Aconite, which contains but the decillionth of a drop of the tincture of the remedy, will cure acute pleurisy in twenty-four hours.

From Personal Experience of a Physician by Ellis, John

It would be a right comfortable thing to pay off one's mortgagees with fractional parts of a halfpenny, and get rid of one's creditors on the "decillionth" scale.

From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I by Lever, Charles James