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Part of my job is to help other kids find books, because not everyone has a keenly organized mind. Some kids could wander the library for hours and still have no idea how to find anything. For them, the Dewey Decimal System might as well be advanced calculus. -- Neal Shusterman
Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal, if you don't use your . -- Tom Lehrer
I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor. -- William Gilmore Simms
The Dewey decimal system really works. So that's all I needed to know. Elementary school taught me that. -- Michelle Rodriguez
The dark energy is not exactly zero, but the first 122 decimal points are zero. That's crazy. That is really one of the craziest things we've ever discovered. -- Leonard Susskind
Whenever I see a forecast written out to two decimal places, I cannot help but wonder if there is a misunderstanding of the limitations of the data, and an illusion of precision. -- Barry Ritholtz
I recited Pi to 22,514 decimal points in five hours and nine minutes. I was able to do this because of weeks of study, aided by the unusual synaesthesic way my mind perceives numbers as complex multidimensional coloured and textured shapes. -- Daniel Tammet
Counting in octal is just likst counting in decimal--if you don't use your thumbs. -- Tom Lehrer
Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for. -- Brian Selznick
All that is born and destroyed is reborn in the sweep of the ages; Life like a decimal ever recurring repeats the old figure. -- Sri Aurobindo
The standard model gives us an accuracy of ten decimal digits, this is an amazing success that has never been achieved before in science. -- Nathan Seiberg
Black folks are judged by quantity, not quality. It's a decimal point or figure. How different is that from slavery? There's no moral code, it's just about successful business for America. -- Chuck D
All we know about the world teaches us that the effects of A and B are always different-in some decimal place-for any A and B. Thus asking "are the effects different?" is foolish. -- John Tukey
It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system. -- Will Durant

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