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Recent Examples of decimalUnlike 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 Of course, that doesn't make their mating calls, which can produce sounds as high as least 90 decimals, according to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, any more pleasant to the human year.—USA TODAY, 25 Jan. 2024 Body fat percentage readings from the QardioBase X were within decimals of those from the Omron, while the Wyze Scale X was generally off by a percentage point or two for this metric.—PCMAG, 6 Feb. 2024 See All Example Sentences for decimal
All these years later, attendance at the IndyCar road course event is a fraction of the Indianapolis 500.
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Bill Koenig,
Forbes.com,
11 May 2025
The magnet, derived from the rare earth element neodymium, was as strong as an iron magnet but a fraction of the volume, allowing automakers to introduce thin power doors, power steering, and power seats, as well as use permanent magnets in motors.
The dense text covered various ideas about cryptography, but Thompson (a former mathematics student) was particularly fascinated with a chapter about prime numbers, the crucial integers that make up the foundation of all computer and data coding.
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TIME,
TIME,
5 Mar. 2025
For millennia, mathematicians have sought integer solutions to them.
The incident put Michigan in the spotlight on the issue, so after voting was completed Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat, sought to put hard numbers to all the accusations and theories flying around.
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Miles Parks,
NPR,
17 May 2025
That number represents subsidies for about 600 units.
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