The decimal point was invented around 150 years earlier than previously thought, according to an analysis of astronomical tables compiled by the Italian merchant and mathematician Giovanni Bianchini ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks to math historian Glen Van Brummelen about his finding that the decimal point appeared in the 1440s, earlier than thought. How did the decimal point come to be? - the dot that ...

On the appearance of the first section of this important book, it is appropriate to give some account of the evolution of logarithmic tables. Logarithmetica Britannica: being a Standard Table of ...

Fractions and decimals are linked. They are both ways of representing parts of a whole. Even though they look different, fractions can have the same value as decimals and decimals can have the same ...

Decimals are a way of representing numbers that are not whole. When 1 is divided into 10 equal parts, they are called tenths. Tenths can be represented as decimals: One tenth = \( \frac{1}{10} \) = ...