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Recent Examples of decimalThe leaders of those and other rate stats — expressed with decimals — are now sprinkled with Negro League standouts.—Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2024 Unlike some scales that give a decimal reading for pounds, the Greater Goods scale features accuracy down to 0.1 ounces and provides measurements in pounds with ounces, decimal pounds, or kilograms.—Laura Lu, Ms, Parents, 21 Mar. 2024 The closer that decimal is to one, the more compact the district is.—Journal Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2024 Being effective may well require a prospective tutor to get a refresher on how to add fractions with unlike denominators or multiply decimals, but a bachelor’s degree, while nice, shouldn’t be a prerequisite.—Michael Thomas Duffy, Hartford Courant, 31 Jan. 2024 See All Example Sentences for decimal
When the screen stabilizes and shows a four-digit code, tap New Frame in the app and follow the steps to connect the Ink to your Wi-Fi network and link it to your Aura account.
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PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
21 Oct. 2025
Europe has seen double-digit growth over the past two years.
But the methods were no longer effective when mathematicians only wanted to find, say, the number of real solutions to the equations in an enumerative geometry problem, or the number of integer solutions.
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Joseph Howlett,
Quanta Magazine,
26 Sep. 2025
Algorithms are old—around 300 B.C., Euclid invented one for finding the greatest common divisor of two integers.
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