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<p><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">> I don't know how they do it in English, but I remember my math professor<br>
> who kept repeating that it's incorrect to say things like "three point<br>
> twenty-five", which many people do in everyday life. From a<br>
> mathematician point that's nonsense and also confusing, as 0.25 is the<br>
> same as 0.250, so reading it as a unit would cause trouble.</span></font></p>
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<p><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">Attending elementary school in the US, I recall that we were taught to label the decimal values explicitly. So, for example, 2.628 would be "two and six-hundred twenty-eight thousandths" and 2.0628 would be "two
and six-hundred twenty-eight ten-thousandths", or something to that effect.<br>
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<p><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">I guess that kind of made sense for elementary school students to drill us on what the decimal values actually represented, but I'm glad nobody actually seems to do that "in real life"; it leaves a lot of room
for mistakes (both on behalf of the speaker and of the listener).</span></font></p>
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<p><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">//loghaD</span></font><br>
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<div id="x_divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> tlhIngan-Hol <tlhingan-hol-bounces@lists.kli.org> on behalf of Lieven L. Litaer <levinius@gmx.de><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, June 15, 2021 2:07:26 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> tlhingan-hol@kli.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [tlhIngan Hol] an observation on the use of {vI'} "decimal point"</font>
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<div class="PlainText">Am 15.06.2021 um 13:46 schrieb mayqel qunen'oS:<br>
> At the above sentences we see, that the decimal numbers (if that's how<br>
> you call in english the crap that follows the decimal point), is given<br>
> by saying each number separately, instead of reading the whole number<br>
> as a unit:<br>
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That is indeed a good observation, and it makes my mathematic brain<br>
quite happy.<br>
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I don't know how they do it in English, but I remember my math professor<br>
who kept repeating that it's incorrect to say things like "three point<br>
twenty-five", which many people do in everyday life. From a<br>
mathematician point that's nonsense and also confusing, as 0.25 is the<br>
same as 0.250, so reading it as a unit would cause trouble.<br>
<br>
Good to know that Klingon scientists are aware of this.<br>
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--<br>
Lieven L. Litaer<br>
aka the "Klingon Teacher from Germany"<br>
<a href="http://www.tlhInganHol.com">http://www.tlhInganHol.com</a><br>
<a href="http://klingon.wiki/En/Mathematics">http://klingon.wiki/En/Mathematics</a><br>
<a href="http://klingon.wiki/En/Numbers">http://klingon.wiki/En/Numbers</a><br>
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