A decimal point went astray in the original story.
dear God, did the contractor misplace a decimal point?
He had a point, probably a decimal point.
It is easy to misplace a decimal point, a tenfold error.
Correction: We misplaced a decimal point in the size of the meteor.
In the so-called sharing economy, we're all reduced to a star rating or a decimal point.
Students at the top of their class, Conrey said, are often separated by one thousandth of a decimal point.
Some market watchers have also speculated that a fat finger trade, where someone accidentally omits a decimal point or types the wrong number, could have been a factor.
Cosmologists believe that 10-34 seconds after the big bang (a decimal point followed by 33 zeros and a one) the universe was driven to expand hugely.
"They say economists put a decimal point in their forecasts to show that they have a sense of humour," Lord Lamont said.
And if the human programmer made an error, such as misplacing a decimal point, that would be expressed in some incorrect behavior on the machine's part.
