Meanings of decimal fractions in anglès

He was a mathematician as far as long division and decimal fractions.

Evidently his wife knew nothing of denominate quantities or decimal fractions.

Even so, the opposition to decimal fractions continues up to date.

Will decimal fractions support his back or strengthen his lumbar vertebrae?

Only after about 600 years the decimal fractions were accepted.

They must also be able to change vulgar fractions into decimal fractions, and decimals into vulgar fractions, with examples like the following:

Esther was far ahead of her in most subjects, and Mellicent learned with pained surprise that she knew nothing whatever about decimal fractions.

In arithmetic, the common rules are taught, but scarcely ever decimal fractions, and almost never book-keeping, so useful and so easy an art.

Mrs. Travers had attended a school where embroidery was the chief number in the curriculum, and mathematics (after decimal fractions) made elective.

Who, for instance, could find such a beautiful love simile from a book of arithmetic costing twenty-five cents, as I have unearthed from decimal fractions?

"And I found that you keep books without having the slightest knowledge of denominate quantities or decimal fractions."