SIMON: He traced the decimal point back 150 years further than previously thought, to a little-known mathematician in Ferrara, Italy, named Giovanni Bianchini.

Historians have discovered what may be the world's first decimal point, in an ancient manuscript written 150 years before its next known appearance. There have been many ways to split integers ...

Clearly, the decimal point is incredibly important to the way we do math today. So, why did Clavius abandon such a monumental discovery so soon after making it? Because he stole it.

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Math historian Glen Van Brummelen came across decimal points in Giovanni Bianchini's manuscript, Tabulae primi mobilis B. Van Brummelen / Historia Mathematica, 2024. For years, historians thought ...

The library Dewey Decimal system groups books into 10 categories numbered 000 through 900, then divides even further within each subject to reach higher levels of specificity. Dewey, currently on its ...

While the decimal numbering system allows any digit in a number to have any of ten values (0-9), digits in hexadecimal numbers can have 16 (0-F), digits in octal numbers only eight ...