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Volume 83 - March 1999

Contents

Page 3 of 14

Matters for debate

  • Some more decimal points

  • John Backhouse
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    01 August 2016, pp. 87-88

  • In Matters for Debate, David Singmaster (DS) discusses some topics relating to the use and misuse of decimal points: the use of a full stop in writing times of the day, confusion between the decimal point and a dot used for multiplication, and writing amounts of money.

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