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Stevin wrote a 36-page booklet called De Thiende ('the art of tenths'), first published in Dutch in 1585 and translated into French as Disme. The full title of the English translation was Decimal arithmetic: Teaching how to perform all computations whatsoever by whole numbers without fractions, by the four principles of common arithmetic: namely, addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
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What is 26.4 percent as a decimal?
Use the dp rule decimal is on the left and percent to the right. Move the decimal two places to the left to change to a decimal. 2.64
What do you use to restrict a range of cells to only displaying three decimal places?
-- Select the range of cells.-- Pull down Format \ Cells \ Number \ Decimal Places: (fill in '3')
How do you know when to use 3.14 or 3 when using pi?
(Pi) has an infinite number of decimal places, and never ends. So if you use 'pi' to get the answer to a problem, then the answer must always be approximate; it can never be exactly true. The more decimal places of 'pi' you use when you work the problem, the more accurate your answer will be. Here's a tiny portion of the beginning of 'pi'. Use as many or as few decimal places as you want. 3.14159 26535 89793 23846 26433 83279 50288 . . . . . However many decimal places you use will be the same as the number of digits in your answer that are correct. After those, none of the rest mean anything, and you should get rid of them by rounding the answer.
What is 81 and 37 thousandths as a decimal?
It is 81.037 What you do is count your places. Past the decimal you count starting at tenths. Thousandths is 3 places to the right of the decimal. However, 37 is just two characters, so you add a zero in front of the 37 to pad it out so you use all 3 places.
How do you add percent sign into TI-83 plus?
there is no percent button... just use the decimal button and then move the decimal two places down
