On one side is the casino, which can reliably calculate its advantage to two decimal points.
But then, why quibble over what amounts to little more than an innocently misplaced decimal point?
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"In one case it looks like someone just put the decimal point in the wrong place!"
All I know is, the calculations have to be accurate because they include decimal points.
From there, divide that rate (as a decimal) into one to find your multiplier.
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If time is money and money is decimal, it will help for time to be decimal, too.
When asked to divide one integer by another, he unhesitatingly recites the answer to 60 decimal places.
Back when I was in college and grad school, we still used microfiche and the Dewey Decimal System.
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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The system was absurd, and adoption of decimal currency was good for the "lowest common denominator" and everyone else.
In 1971, Britain changed over to decimal currency from pounds, shillings and pence.
Joe the Plumber, icon that he became, was not ultimately all about marginal tax brackets worked out to the umpteenth decimal point.
The investment consultants earn their reward for scrutinising, down to the decimal point, how well various managers have done.
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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.
The longer decimal hour will helpfully disguise this change from unwilling workaholics.
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.
People prefer to address computers by names, such as www.economist.com, rather than numbers (in this case 207.87.8.50, when translated into decimal digits).
Because they could co-ordinate their efforts with the campaigns, Republicans could create precinct lists, with targets for voter turnout precise to two decimal figures.
But if he performs as Marvel parent Disney anticipates, expect the Australian actor to creep a few decimal points closer to commanding a Downey-sized paycheck.
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.
When I made this proposal, only slightly facetiously, in a roomful of self-described education entrepreneurs, it was if I'd said that Dewey had plagiarized his decimal system.
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One problem is that, as it stands, the model requires its 20 or so constants to be exactly what they are to an uncomfortable 32 decimal places.
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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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This unfortunate misperception exists because when the very first press release was posted in English about Dragon Mart Cancun, somebody in the English press missed a decimal place.
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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Even though it spits out percentages to several decimal points, the capital-asset pricing model, as the conceptual framework for calculating the rates is called, is controversial in itself.
It is only now, 400 years after the invention of the decimal system by Simon Stevin, a forgotten Belgian tradesman, that counting time in tens has become an economic imperative.
Graciela Bevacqua, the professional statistician responsible for the consumer-price index (CPI) until Mr Moreno forced her out, says that he tried to get her to omit decimal points, not round them.
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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