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We're learning about decimal points for the first time in our life.
Sounds like two people are really enjoying the Dewey Decimal System.
Sounds like two people are really enjoying the Dewey Decimal System.
Decimal points, high frequencies, bang, bang, bang.
Decimal points, high frequencies, bang, bang, bang.
The metric system makes that look easy because things are always divided by 10, so the fractions match up really nicely with our base 10 decimal system.
The metric system makes that look easy because things are always divided by 10, so the fractions match up really nicely with our base 10 decimal system.
I don't care so much what pi is to 10 decimal places or 20 decimal places.
I don't care so much what pi is to 10 decimal places or 20 decimal places.
The decimal is what we are really after.
The decimal is what we are really after.
Software that encodes the AD calendar year as a four-digit decimal will no longer be able to encode dates starting at 10,000 AD.
Software that encodes the AD calendar year as a four-digit decimal will no longer be able to encode dates starting at 10,000 AD.
Now, in this case, we sometimes put a decimal point here and round it.
Now, in this case, we sometimes put a decimal point here and round it.
Well, in my human world, the decimal system, dec meaning 10, I have how many digits at my disposal?
And that's true of our sort of old-school decimal system.
So we might say, rolling a 3 has a probability of decimal one six seven. Or of all the things
So we might say rolling a 3 has a probability of decimal 1/67.