decimal place
noun
: the position of a digit as counted to the right of the decimal point in a decimal
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Altogether, 14 decimal places will have been lopped off the bolivar, meaning a one bolivar note in 2022 will be worth 100 trillion bolivars of the 2008 vintage.
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Moisés Naím, Foreign Affairs, 28 Sep. 2021
Long before computers, historic scientists such as Isaac Newton spent many hours calculating decimal places by hand.
—Curt Anderson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Mar. 2024
To three decimal places, the actual number was +0.155%.
—Robert Barone, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2024
Like the headline, to the third decimal place, the number was +0.165% (i.e., 0.00165), rounded up to +0.2%; again, only a whisker away from reporting at +0.1%.
—Robert Barone, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2024
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Moisés Naím, Foreign Affairs, 28 Sep. 2021
Long before computers, historic scientists such as Isaac Newton spent many hours calculating decimal places by hand.
—Curt Anderson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Mar. 2024
To three decimal places, the actual number was +0.155%.
—Robert Barone, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2024
Like the headline, to the third decimal place, the number was +0.165% (i.e., 0.00165), rounded up to +0.2%; again, only a whisker away from reporting at +0.1%.
—Robert Barone, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2024
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“Decimal place.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/decimal%20place. Accessed 13 Feb. 2025.
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