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 ...

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 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 ...

There's no shortage of expense management, bill pay, and payroll tech solutions for SMBs. Decimal is a fintech automating accounting operations for SMBs. See the pitch deck Decimal used to raise a $9 ...

The 2,300-year-old matrix is the world's oldest decimal multiplication table. From a few fragments out of a collection of 23-century-old bamboo strips, historians have pieced together what they say is ...

Linux provides commands for converting numbers from one base to another. Learn how to uses these commands and how to make the process easier with scripts and aliases. You might not be challenged very ...

This decimal clock was made by Pierre Daniel Destigny in Rouen, France, between 1798 and 1805. | DeFacto, Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA 4.0 Everybody knows that there are 24 hours in a day, 60 minutes ...

Though Marie Antoinette would be hard-pressed to care, the French Revolution of 1789 set its sights on more than simply toppling the monarchy. Revolutionaries sought to break the nation free from its ...

American odds are displayed in hundreds and thousands (-110, +500, +1500, etc). Be sure to enter the minus sign (-) if applicable to your odds. Decimal odds are displayed as a number greater than one, ...

Knowing what the odds on a bet mean is sports betting 101. Odds are not uniform. There are three main systems of odds. American odds, fractional odds and decimal odds. You can read more about American ...