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2. Fraction - Wikipedia

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   Shilling or solidus fractions: 1/2, so called because this notation was used for pre-decimal British currency , as in "2/6" for a half crown, meaning two shillings and six pence. While the notation "two shillings and six pence" did not represent a fraction, the forward slash is now used in fractions, especially for fractions inline with prose ...

3. Rounding - Wikipedia

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   In other words, y should be a multiple of a number m that depends on the magnitude of x. The number m is a power of the base (usually 2 or 10) of the floating-point representation. Apart from this detail, all the variants of rounding discussed above apply to the rounding of floating-point numbers as well.

4. English numerals - Wikipedia

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   Some American and Canadian schools teach students to pronounce decimaly written fractions (for example, .5) as though they were longhand fractions (five tenths), such as thirteen and seven tenths for 13.7. This formality is often dropped in common speech and is steadily disappearing in instruction in mathematics and science as well as in ...

5. Decimal time - Wikipedia

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   Sometimes in official records, decimal hours were divided into tenths, or décimes, instead of minutes. One décime is equal to 10 decimal minutes, which is nearly equal to a quarter-hour (15 minutes) in standard time. Thus, "five hours two décimes" equals 5.2 decimal hours, roughly 12:30 p.m. in standard time.

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7. Decimal separator - Wikipedia

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   [6] [2] [7] In some specialized contexts, the word decimal is instead used for this purpose (such as in International Civil Aviation Organization-regulated air traffic control communications). In mathematics, the decimal separator is a type of radix point , a term that also applies to number systems with bases other than ten.

8. Honoring Grizzly 399: Days after death, remains of beloved ...

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   Grizzly 399's death marks the second bear mortality this year caused from a vehicle strike in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, according to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.Between 2009 and 2023 ...

9. Thousandth of an inch - Wikipedia

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   For example, "five tenths," is typically a measurement or tolerance of five ten-thousandths of an inch, and written as 0.0005 inches. "Three tenths," as another example, is written as 0.0003 inches [9] Machining "to within a few tenths" is often considered very accurate, and at or near the extreme limit of tolerance capability in most contexts.