Sentences with phrase «put decimal points»

But all of us in Mrs. Eberhart's class learned how to give morning talks from index card notes, put decimal points in the right place, and get our work, properly inked, in on time.

«I must have put a decimal point in the wrong place or something».

The case was widely reported in the media due to its striking facts, namely that the mistake in the offer documents was to put a decimal point in the wrong place, with the unfortunate result of inflating 10x the base salary.

For example, while ordinary medical mistakes by a medical doctor such as confusing two drugs with similar names or putting the decimal point in a prescription dosage, causing harm to a patient, would not ordinarily result in criminal liability, coming into an operating room while too drunk to drive and without reviewing which limb of a patient needs to be amputated despite a clear indication in marker on the leg of a patient showing that fact, might constitute criminal negligence on the part of a medical doctor.

Not exact matches

We'll put put specific numbers on that bluebird view by creating a simple model that involves moving a few decimal points: Let's say that FAANG Inc's share price is $ 24 (based on $ 24 trillion valuation) and that it earns 80 cents (that's the $ 80 billion, many decimal points to the left), so it's selling at the FAANGs combined PE of 30.

If he expressed the position of these ruler points as a list of decimal numbers, say 0.1111111111..., 0.1211111111..., 0.1311111111..., and tried to put them into one - to - one correspondence with the integers 1, 2, 3..., Cantor found that he could always come up with yet another decimal number between 0 and 1 that was not on the list.