Sentence examples for prefer decimals from inspiring English sources

A flick is one seven hundred and five million six hundred thousandth of a second — 1/705,600,000 if you prefer the digits, or 1.417233560090703e-9 if you prefer decimals.

If you prefer to look at decimal values, change the "Display Settings" option at the bottom.

For Borda, the seconds pendulum was a poor choice for a standard because the second (as a unit of time) was insufficiently decimal: he preferred the new system of 10 hours to the day, 100 minutes to the hour and 100 seconds to the minute.

High-performance, area and power efficient hardware implementation of decimal multiplication is preferred to slow software simulations in various key scientific and financial applications, where errors caused by converting decimal numbers into their approximate binary representations are unacceptable.

The terminating decimal representation is usually preferred, contributing to the misconception that it is the only representation.

According to Tolkien, the elves preferred duodecimal counting (base 12) to the decimal system (base 10: Quenya maquanotië, quaistanótië), though both systems seem to have coexisted.

Participants were shown various options for half a pill, including 0.5, 1/2, ½ and the word 'half.' Participants overwhelmingly preferred 'half,' and believed that the fraction and decimal options could cause greater confusion.

Display number of decimal places = blank (for integers preferred).

A number's precision relates to its decimal places or significant figures (or as preferred here, significant digits).

Set Display number of decimal places to blank(as integers are preferred).

Normal recurring decimals.