(Everyone will understand that more/less than ten percent were affected and nobody actually died).. Remember that "decimate" is similar to "decimal," which refers to counting by tens.
Whereas in a decimal system, which employs 10 digits, each digit position represents a power of 10 (1,0001,000, etc)., in a binary system each digit position represents a power of 2 (4, 8, 16, etc).
" 2,42" is a decimal number, which demonstrates that in German the period is not used as a decimal separator.
On 13 July 1790, Jefferson presented a document Plan for Establishing Uniformity in the Coinage, Weights, and Measures of the United States to the U.S. Congress in which, like Wilkins, he advocated a decimal system in which units that used traditional names such as inches, feet, roods were related to each by the powers of ten.
We converted the floating-point output models of Maxent into integer grids (retaining first 3 decimals), which are easier to manipulate in a GIS-framework, using the Raster Calculator in ArcMap 9.3.
The teacher was grilling kids on decimals, which I did not understand.
Lately, we've encountered afterhours trading and trading in decimals, which have proved to be of greater benefit to the brokers than to the customers.
The U.S. stock exchanges revised their price quotation rules in 2001 to allow trade to be priced in decimals, which encouraged algorithm trades via the ECNs.
One of the earliest proposals for a decimal system in which length, area, volume and mass were linked to each other was made by John Wilkins, first secretary of the Royal Society of London in his 1668 essay "An Essay towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language".
Aim for a decimal below 0.8, which is a sign of an hourglass figure.[4].
