You get the the itty-bitty number that looks like 0.000000001 but with tens of thousands of zeroes between the decimal and the 1.
Welcome to The After Math, where we attempt to summarize this week's tech news through numbers, decimal places and percentages.
We have firms telling us this calculation is embedded in our swap agreement, out to 10 decimal places and you are telling us the Excel calculation is wrong?
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Sometimes the flesh-and-bone reality of who the nation's two best teams are contradicts BCS dictates and decimal points.
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In a country that embraced the decimal system earlier and more enthusiastically than many western ones, anything containing a numeral like two just seems odd.
The system was absurd, and adoption of decimal currency was good for the "lowest common denominator" and everyone else.
If time is money and money is decimal, it will help for time to be decimal, too.
Back when I was in college and grad school, we still used microfiche and the Dewey Decimal System.
Calculations by scientists, who are forever totting up times but are often bad at mental arithmetic, will also be much easier if they can just move decimal points instead of multiplying and dividing.
In 1971, Britain changed over to decimal currency from pounds, shillings and pence.
The US adopted decimal dollars hundreds of years ago and the UK clung to pounds-shillings-pence-farthings until 1976(?) Hardly anyone but older Britons can even imagine how to divide a bill for 7 Pounds, 5 Shillings and five Pence among three diners, or the painful calculations involved.
One, the creation of new bitcoin is capped at 21 million with eight current decimal places so it grows through adoption and usage rather than monetary expansion.
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In it, Bush describes a man who loves numbers, and she actually sings about a hundred decimal places into the famous fraction.
Producer and microhouse master Matthew Herbert's own attention to detail shows here: Even though "Calculator" is chaotic, each resonant guitar strum and keyboard bleep remains as integral as a decimal place.
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