Translation for 'decimal point' from English to Finnish

decimal point

desimaalipilkku {noun}

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decimal

desimaalinen {adj}

desimaaliluku {noun}mat.

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decimal number

desimaaliluku {noun}mat.

decimal system

kymmenjärjestelmä {noun}mat.

dew point

kastepiste {noun}fys.meteo.rake.

boiling point

kiehumispiste {noun}fys.

starting point

alkupiste {noun}

melting point

sulamispiste {noun}kem.

flash point

leimahduspiste {noun}kem.

triple point

kolmoispiste {noun}fys.

freezing point

jäätymispiste {noun}fys.

reference point

kiintopiste {noun}

fixed point

kiintopiste {noun}mat.

initial point

alkupiste {noun}

Schiffler point

Schifflerin piste {noun}mat.

turning point

käännepiste {noun}mat.

controversial point

kiistakysymys {noun}

acupuncture point

akupunktuuripiste {noun}lää

akupiste {noun} [arki.]lää

Gergonne point

Gergonnen piste {noun}mat.

• John Napier is best known as the discoverer of logarithms. He also invented the so-called "Napier's bones" and made common the use of the decimal point in arithmetic and mathematics.
• The zero was probably introduced to the Chinese in the Tang dynasty (618–907) when travel in the Indian Ocean and the Middle East would have provided direct contact with India, allowing them to acquire the concept of zero and the decimal point from Indian merchants and mathematicians.
• ALIGNED(1,6) controls the format of the output with 1 digit before and 6 after the decimal point.
• Sorting decimals properly is a bit more difficult, because different locales use different symbols for a decimal point, and sometimes the same character used as a decimal point is also used as a separator, for example "Section 3.2.5".
• During the beginning of British metrication in the late 1960s and with impending currency decimalisation, there was some debate in the United Kingdom as to whether the decimal comma or decimal point should be preferred: the British Standards Institution and some sectors of industry advocated the comma and the Decimal Currency Board advocated for the point.

• computable real number "a" and generate increasingly precise approximations until the "n"th digit after the decimal point is certain.
• One aligns two decimal fractions above each other, with the decimal point in the same location.
• The user is responsible, however, for mentally keeping track of the decimal point.
• are in the right of the number block and the decimal point lies between two neighboring digits.
• Bliss deliberately avoided the use of the decimal point because of his objection to Dewey's system.

• These are capable of measurement to 5 to 6 places beyond the decimal point and are used in the brewing, distilling, pharmaceutical, petroleum and other industries.
• The optical clock based on it is exact to 17 digits after the decimal point.
• This could confuse novice users who unintentionally began a line with a decimal point (same as period or dot character) and WordStar would not print the line.
• for the decimal point, as in print, and the decimal point (...) to mark capitalization.
• The user determines the location of the decimal point in the result, based on mental estimation.

• Add leading zeroes (or trailing zeroes to the right of decimal point) to fill out the last group of three if necessary.
• The "p"-adic numbers may have infinitely long expansions to the left of the decimal point, in the same way that real numbers may have infinitely long expansions to the right.
• We see that the number of correct digits after the decimal point increases from 2 (for [...]) to 5 and 10, illustrating the quadratic convergence.
• The [...] "Humphrey point" is sometimes used as the "decimal point" in duodecimal numbers: 54;612 equals 64.510.