decimal points

• plural

  plural

  The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.

  of decimal point.
  decimal point

  noun

  a dot used to separate the whole part of a mixed number from its fractional part: for example, in the mixed number 32.89, the whole part is 32 whole units, the fractional part is 89 one-hundredths, and the dot that allows for the expression 32.89 is the decimal point.

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decimal points

It reminds me of the joke that you know an economist has a sense of humor if he uses decimal points.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 4, 2026

Magnitude refers to the size of an earthquake, with increases marked as decimal points.

From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2025

The revised figure when calculated with decimal points is 18.4 percent.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 14, 2023

The difference may be only a few decimal points, but an earthquake’s energy is measured exponentially.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2022

To be especially safe, I took my calculations two decimal points beyond what the computer had come up with.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

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