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 ...

Microsoft's Visual Basic programming language has variable types for three different kinds of numbers: integer, floating-point and decimal. Integer variables range from a short 2-byte format to a long ...

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 ...

(WHTM) — Buying and selling in the 13 colonies was a messy process. In theory, as British subjects, the colonists should have been using the British monetary system of pounds, shillings, and pence.

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 ...

While desktop computers have tons of computing power and storage, some small CPUs don’t have a lot of space to store things. What’s more is some CPUs don’t do multiplication and division very well.