How to Use decimal in a Sentence

decimal

1 of 2 adjective

• The decimal meter hit 115 at Ford Field, and after a field goal, the game was tied.
  — Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press, 24 Sep. 2017
• The number to the left of the decimal designates the distillery and the number to the right the particular batch.
  — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2021
• But in each of the last four weeks the cleveland.com projection has been within decimal points of the official number.
  — Rich Exner, cleveland, 8 Apr. 2021
• But the system took time to take hold (and the accompanying notion of a 10-hour decimal day never did).
  — Timothy Farrington, WSJ, 7 Nov. 2022
• Sometimes this rate can be hard to find and is depicted on the bill differently from the SOS price, such as in decimal form rather than a digit.
  — Scott Patterson, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2021
• For the unversed, classic minute repeaters chime the hour, quarter hours, and minutes, but the decimal variation strikes tones for the hours, the tens of minutes, and the single minutes.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 28 June 2023
• The question was repeated — this time a decimal above the initial inquiry.
  — Bernice L. McFadden, Longreads, 7 Aug. 2021
• Instead of only changing the finest decimal points at the very end, a value further forward has also changed.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 4 Dec. 2020
• The highest and lowest scores for each run are dropped, and the remaining three scores are averaged to two decimal places resulting in the final run score.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2021
• But in each of the last seven weeks the cleveland.com projection has been within decimal points of the official number, and sometimes exactly the same.
  — Rich Exner, cleveland, 28 Apr. 2021
• And the numbers between the dollar sign and the decimal point undoubtedly will continue to grow.
  — Mark Maske, chicagotribune.com, 29 Aug. 2017
• The value of the pound on Sept. 26, in the aftermath of Kwarteng’s mini-budget—the lowest exchange rate against the dollar ever since the pound went decimal half a century ago.
  — Quartz, 2 Oct. 2022
• So, in June of 1799, two platinum standards—a meter rod and a kilogram cylinder—were forged, marking the creation of the decimal metric system.
  — Robert Rathe, National Geographic, 20 May 2019
• Because Bitcoin can be divided out to eight decimal places, small fractions of a whole can be purchased.
  — Charlie Wells, Bloomberg.com, 2 Dec. 2020
• If that wasn’t enough, the timepiece features another complication in the form of a decimal minute repeater.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 17 June 2021
• Think of it like the infinity of decimal numbers that exist between zero and one.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 6 July 2017
• Six decimal places were stored in the computer’s memory.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 24 Jan. 2023
• The 2012 book Math Goes to the Movies points out a few huge goofs, including the title sequence’s misrepresentation of pi’s decimal expansion.
  — WIRED, 14 Mar. 2023
• Each one could be divided and multiplied using a decimal scale.
  — National Geographic, 10 Sep. 2020
• Other ownership and their shares, down to many decimal points, are also outlined in documents, including the estate of Flip Saunders, which has less than 0.3% of the franchise.
  — Chris Hine, Star Tribune, 16 June 2021
• Everyone knows there is no such thing as perfection; even the design of the scoreboards at the Montreal Olympics seemed to acknowledge that, having only enough room to show a single digit and two decimal places.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 18 July 2021
• To calculate how much fertilizer to apply for 1 pound of nitrogen, divide 1 by the decimal value of the nitrogen percentage shown on the bag (first of three numbers).
  — oregonlive, 5 Feb. 2023
• Those decimal points carried the fate and dreams of countless Latinos and immigrants across the nation whose future rests on political margins getting wider, not smaller.
  — Paola Ramos, Vogue, 18 Nov. 2022
• Watch your change and decimal points, as money mistakes are a real possibility.
  — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 30 Nov. 2020
• Their beauty comes in part from offering the best approximation of an irrational number, which, when written as a decimal, would run on for infinity.
  — Popular Mechanics, 21 Feb. 2021
• If DNA is all about the numbers, refining the probability of a match down to as many decimal places as possible, fingerprint and bullet science offers much less certainty.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 28 July 2017
• Over the centuries Chinese, Indian and Arab mathematicians continued to calculate pi to more and more decimal places.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 14 Mar. 2021
• Given that medical progress is often seen in decimal-point increments, these were staggering numbers.
  — Eva Holland, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2023
• Typically, updates with two decimal points in the number are minor bug fix updates, those with just one decimal point are small feature updates, and those with just a whole number (like iOS 14) are annual major releases.
  — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 20 Nov. 2020
• The difference may be only a few decimal points, but an earthquake’s energy is measured exponentially.
  — Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2022

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decimal

2 of 2 noun

• Seven-tenths written as a decimal is .7.
• The decimal.2 is equal to the fraction 2/10.
• But all that money -- guaranteed to the decimal -- isn’t putting a smile on his face.
  — Clark Spencer, miamiherald, 19 May 2017
• To get the percentage figure, subtract 1 from the index figure to get the change as a decimal.
  — Scott Burns, Dallas News, 18 July 2022
• There’s nothing tricky at this step—just round up if the decimal is 0.5 or higher, and round down otherwise.
  — Dave Linkletter, Popular Mechanics, 7 Feb. 2020
• Those figures are added and divided by 2, then rounded to the nearest decimal.
  — Tony Wood, Philly.com, 2 May 2017
• Improvements at the race track are often measured in decimals.
  — Jack Fitzgerald, Car and Driver, 13 July 2023
• The numbers are sometimes part of the answer itself: A square may contain a single decimal digit instead of a letter.
  — Quanta Magazine, 21 Dec. 2018
• Even those preferring not to deal in decimals will recognize that as about one eighth of an inch more than the .37 inches that fell on Jan. 12, which had heretofore held the title of the year’s wettest day in Washington.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2018
• The first group, when expressed in hex, sorts ascending when sorted in decimal and also in hex (as alphanumeric).
  — Quanta Magazine, 28 June 2017
• The excitement level has been ratcheted up a few decimals by way of both teams boasting undefeated records through four weeks.
  — Pat Disabato, Daily Southtown, 19 Sep. 2017
• In a fourth-grade classroom, students were converting fractions on a ruler marked with meters into decimals.
  — Leslie Brody, WSJ, 15 June 2019
• Even more radically, the 10 could be intended as binary, making this the Xbox 2 in decimal.
  — Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 7 June 2017
• First, space is mostly empty: To express the percentage of the universe that consists of matter requires a decimal followed by 20 zeros.
  — Adam Kirsch, WSJ, 28 June 2019
• When rounded to one decimal, as the Labor Department typically does, the official jobless rate is now the lowest since April 2000.
  — Christopher Rugaber, BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2018
• The Complex Universe Functions can only do so much when they’re defined in terms of the real numbers — values that can be expressed as a conventional decimal.
  — Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 21 Sep. 2023
• The kids are coming from the Decimal Diner, a math activity in which students tackle decimals by pretending to run a restaurant.
  — Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2018
• Of course there are plenty of disadvantages to a system without imaginary numbers and decimals.
  — Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica, 25 Aug. 2017
• The numerical value of pi, of course, is approximately 3.14, give or take three trillion decimals.
  — Joey Morona, cleveland.com, 14 Mar. 2018
• By the window overlooking 14th Street’s bustle, two of the more advanced students converted fractions into decimals.
  — Leslie Brody, WSJ, 10 Oct. 2017
• But the larger problem is that bitcoin’s price is practically prohibitive because people don’t want to deal with decimals.
  — Matthew De Silva, Quartz, 1 Aug. 2019
• Against worse teams in easier situations, those decimals might not matter.
  — Dan Woike, sandiegouniontribune.com, 19 Sep. 2017
• In fact, while each shade has both a numeric and a descriptive name — for example, 18 Deep Sable — nearly half the shades have decimals, indicating subtle variations in undertones.
  — Marci Robin, Allure, 11 July 2018
• The vast majority are irrational numbers, never-ending decimals that cannot be written as fractions.
  — Wired, 18 Aug. 2019
• Fractions are like decimals, but they are written differently.
  — Dana Goldstein, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2017
• That extra decimal represents hundreds of thousands of dollars of additional value, and a source of technical pride for an organization like the RCM.
  — Hazlitt, 1 Mar. 2023
• So, humans have managed to memorize incredibly long sequences of pi decimals.
  — Jeffery Delviscio, Scientific American, 14 Mar. 2023
• The human brain is especially good at making either/or comparisons, and especially bad at decimals.
  — Jeff Stibel, USA TODAY, 16 June 2017
• Real examples and applications are messy, with ugly roots made of decimals or irrational numbers.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 6 Dec. 2019
• And many fail simple ability tests — the average teacher score on test questions involving the addition of two decimals was only 64 percent in Tanzania, for example.
  — Charles Kenny and Justin Sandefur, Vox, 24 May 2018

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