A recent discovery of documents dating back to the 15th century in Italy sheds new light on the history of the decimal point, revealing that this key element of mathematics was used much earlier than ...

If you're using Excel to calculate monetary values, then you only have to worry about two decimal places in your numbers. Aligning your numbers to the right automatically lines up the decimal points ...

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 ...

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 ...

I hadn’t used my scientific calculator in a while, but recently had to use it to work through some calculations for an analog-related story. Yes, I could use a suitable app on my PC or smartphone, but ...

They want the Securities and Exchange Commission to permit firms to set minimum profit margins on trading stocks to restore margins squeezed when stocks began trading in dollars and cents instead of ...