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 ...

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 ...

"Every man who looks at his ten fingers saw an argument of its use, and an evidence of its practicability." The above statement was made by Sir John Bowring MP to the House of Commons in 1847, but ...

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 ...

Researchers in Switzerland are set to break the record for the most precise value of the mathematical constant pi, after using a supercomputer to calculate the famous number to its first 62.8 trillion ...

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 ...

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 ...