Daily Telegraph General Knowledge (Gk) Herculis Monday February 16Th 2015

[Vimto]

14 down. Clue: In positional notation or place-value, the digit before a decimal point. (5). I have: U?I?S. Help please.

[mallyh]

units

[Tilly2]

Units?

[factor-fiction]

as in "tens and units"

[Tilly2]

Units just seemed too easy. Hence, my question mark.

[dannyk13]

Units it is

[dannyk13]

Decimals - Math is Fun www.mathsisfun.com/decimals.html Here is the number "forty-five and six-tenths" written as a decimal number: The decimal point goes between units and tenths

[dzug2]

Unit (singular) is really what follows from the clue

[dannyk13]

dzug, the clue has 5 letters.

[Captain2]

Think dzug is saying the way the clue is worded it infers a singular reponse ie Unit and not Units - don't think he was questioning the actual answer.

[factor-fiction]

Yes the solution has 5 letters but can see what dzug means. However I think the answer is okay because if you take the number 5.6 for example the digit before the decimal point has a value of 5 units. The wording may have had to be quite clumsy to get it exactly right

[factor-fiction]

Sorry Captain- yours wasn't there when I started

[dannyk13]

Good morning Capt. I agree

[Tilly2]

If it had said 'digits', the answer, 'units' would be wrong.

[Dickiedot]

Units, but clue wording is iffy. Are we going for girosol or girasol 20a ?

[dannyk13]

Girasol

[dannyk13]

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/girasol

[Dickiedot]

Thanks Danny

[Dickiedot]

Think sunroot is a better answer which is why I've had to reprint the damn thing lol

[LEICESTERSHI]

Thanks, that certainly fits with the letters I have