Decimal vs Null - What's the difference?
decimal | null |
(arithmetic, computing, uncountable) The number system that uses the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9.
(countable) A number expressed in this system.
(informal) A decimal place.
(informal) A numeral written as a concatenation of successive negative powers of the base.
(informal) A decimal point.
(arithmetic, computing) Concerning numbers expressed in decimal or mathematical calculations performed using decimal.
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As an adjective decimal
is decimal.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.decimal
English
Noun
(wikipedia decimal)- Pi has a value of 3.141, to three decimals .
Synonyms
* (system ): base 10, decimal system * (number ): decimal number * (decimal place ): decimal place, place of decimalsAdjective
(-)Synonyms
* base-10, denary (rare)See also
* base * binary * hexadecimal * octalAnagrams
* * * * ----null
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.