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. The decimal point was in use 150 years before ...

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 ...

There’s really no such number as “point three seven five.” Yet that’s how a lot of students say .375, and a big reason for this is that’s how a lot of teachers say it--including me until I realized ...

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 ...

The most common technique for activating a single decimal point is simply tieing its activation pin to ground. In most situations, only one decimal point is used because the display reading represents ...

How did the decimal point come to be? - the dot that divides whole numbers. Historians are revising its origin story. Glen Van Brummelen studies the history of math and astronomy at Trinity Western ...