Sam Weller

Libraries are at a cultural crossroads. Some proffer that libraries as we know them may go away altogether, ironic victims of the information age where Google has subverted Dewey decimal and researchers can access anything on a handheld device. Who needs to venture deep into the stacks when answers are but a click away?

American Author

Jay Griffiths

Clearly, many branches of science need an exquisite precision of timekeeping and the infinitesimal decimals of calibration, so space launches, for example, are not scheduled for leap-second dates. But society as a whole neither needs that obsessive time measurement nor is well served by it.

British Author

Daniel Tammet

I recited Pi to 22,514 decimal points in five hours and nine minutes. I was able to do this because of weeks of study, aided by the unusual synaesthesic way my mind perceives numbers as complex multidimensional coloured and textured shapes.

English Writer

James C. Maxwell

In a few years, all great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left to men of science will be to carry these measurements to another place of decimals.

Scottish Mathematician

Alan Guth

If you consider the universe one second after the Big Bang, the expansion rate would have to have been just right to an accuracy of 15 decimal places, or else the universe would really not work.

American Physicist

Barry Ritholtz

Whenever I see a forecast written out to two decimal places, I cannot help but wonder if there is a misunderstanding of the limitations of the data, and an illusion of precision.

Leonard Susskind

The dark energy is not exactly zero, but the first 122 decimal points are zero. That's crazy. That is really one of the craziest things we've ever discovered.

Michelle Rodriguez

The Dewey decimal system really works. So that's all I needed to know. Elementary school taught me that.

American Actress

William Gilmore Simms

I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor.

American Novelist

Tom Lehrer

Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal, if you don't use your thumbs.

American Musician

The decimal system is called 'base ten' because it uses ten digits (0-9) for counting.

Base Ten

Decimals are standard in most countries for math and science, which aids in global communication.

Universally Used

Using decimals can give a more precise measurement than fractions in everyday use.

Precision Matters

Decimals often represent fractions, making it easier to understand and compare values.

Fraction Conversion

In everyday life, decimals are frequently used to represent money, such as dollars and cents.

Money Representation

Decimals can be added, subtracted, multiplied, and divided just like whole numbers.

Math Operations

 Because this is the important idea behind whole number place value, decimal place value and fractions. Our whole number system depends on being able to change what we count as "one". Our whole number system depends on being able to change units. There are two ways to change units. We can compose, and we can partition. When we compose units,

One is one ... or is it?

 can be broken into tiny pieces analogous to cents going out eight decimal places Bitcoin has been very volatile over the past several months and there is massive speculation occurring within the community already for people who don't have the raw computing power to compete with other miners there are several

Unpacking the nuts and...

 I'll construct my decimal one place at a time. For the first decimal place of my number, I'll look at the first decimal place of your first number. If it's a one, I'll make mine a two; otherwise I'll make mine a one. For the second place of my number, I'll look at the second place of your second number.

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 in use anymore but it's still fun to collect them and look at them and you can still learn about places from them so i have a currency trivia question for you which are the only two countries in the world that have a currency that is not based on a base 10 decimal system

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 We can then form another right triangle with a base of that length and a one unit height, and its hypotenuse would equal root three, which can be extended along the line, as well. The key here is that decimals and ratios are only ways to express numbers.

Making sense of...

 Characters are often found representing quantities that are unknown, and the relationships between variables. They also stand in for specific numbers that show up frequently but would be cumbersome or impossible to fully write out in decimal form.

Where do math symbols...

 and varied from place to place. And different regions didn't just use varying measurements. They had completely different number systems as well. By the late Middle Ages, the Hindu-Arabic decimal system

Why the metric system...

 Instead, each type of data is encoded in binary according to a separate set of rules. Let’s take numbers. In normal decimal notation, each digit is multiplied by 10 raised to the value of its position,

How exactly does binary...

 bigger numbers well you can't get much bigger than pi the mathematical constant it's an infinite number literally goes on forever in this painting that I made of the first 20 decimals of pi I take

Different ways of...

 a detector and an imager. The total width of it is 600 times smaller than the width of a decimal place. And it takes all the infrared available at night,