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| Processed by: | richwarm (2012-03-24 09:40:27 UTC) |
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<< review queue entry 39019 - submitted by 'richwarm' >> Examples for "small figure; small amount" ~ 从花费来看,这笔钱乃区区小数 50英镑的奖金可不是个小数 ABC ~ decimal F ~ 1 ［数学］ decimal; decimal fraction/number 2 small sum M ~ (1) 小技藝、小技術 (2) 些微的數額 (3) 數學上指小於整數一的數，即位於小數點右邊的數。如 0.1、0.03 I don't think just "decimal" is very good: (1) That's an ambiguous term, which could be taken to be an adjective: "written in base 10 notation", 以十作基础的 or 十进的 (2) As a noun, a decimal may be > 1, e.g. 1.3 is a "decimal" (Webster @ decimal = "any real number expressed in base 10") (3) As far as I can tell from the M definition, a 小數 could be written using a base other than 10 (e.g. in binary notation) and then it would be confusing to call it a "decimal". In fact, here is an example where 小数 refers to binary numbers between 0 and 1: 本章要介绍的是计算机如何用二进制算法来处理负数和小数。 Also, CEDICT's "decimal digit" is probably misleading in most cases, although you might say it works in an example like 3.338四舍五入到两位小数是3.34。 |
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- 小數 小数 [xiao3 shu4] /decimal digit/ + 小數 小数 [xiao3 shu4] /small figure/small amount/the part of a number to the right of the decimal point (or radix point)/fractional part of a number/number between 0 and 1/decimal fraction/ |