Today marks a major milestone in Australia’s financial history – the 60th anniversary of decimal currency. It’s been decades since Australians ditched pounds, shillings and pence for dollars and cents ...

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 ...

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 ...

Melvil Dewey, the inventor of the Dewey Decimal System, was born on December 10, 1851. Among other things, Dewey was a self-proclaimed reformer, so when working for the Amherst College library in the ...

The humble decimal point may have been invented about 150 years before we previously thought. Experts had previously credited German mathematician Christopher Clavius for the innovation, but according ...

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 ...

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, but ...

So, the number \(5.743\) is said to have 3 decimal places. The number \(5.1492\) has four decimal places, while \(4.34\) has two decimal places. To round a number to a given number of decimal places, ...

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 ...