Decimal Quotations

The dark energy is not exactly zero, but the first 122 decimal points are zero. That's crazy. That is really one of the craziest things we've ever discovered.

Some people are working to four decimal points, some people are working to three, and some people are working to two,

Any system named Dewey was all right with us. We looked forward to hearing about the Huey and Louie decimal systems too.

I recited Pi to 22,514 decimal points in five hours and nine minutes. I was able to do this because of weeks of study, aided by the unusual synaesthesic way my mind perceives numbers as complex multidimensional coloured and textured shapes.

Whenever I see a forecast written out to two decimal places, I cannot help but wonder if there is a misunderstanding of the limitations of the data, and an illusion of precision.

Libraries are at a cultural crossroads. Some proffer that libraries as we know them may go away altogether, ironic victims of the information age where Google has subverted Dewey decimal and researchers can access anything on a handheld device. Who needs to venture deep into the stacks when answers are but a click away?

We did the decimal point on the billboards, which was really interesting. No one's playing; sales have drastically decreased over the years.

We change our meters on a regular basis. When the meter was replaced in 2004, there was a zero in the wrong spot, causing the computer reading to be off by a decimal point.