Sometimes numbers seem to behave in mysterious ways, don't they? For example, when you multiply decimals, the numbers ...

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 ...

A mathematical historian at Trinity Wester University in Canada, has found use of a decimal point by a Venetian merchant 150 years before its first known use by German mathematician Christopher ...

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 ...

In mathematical notation, the decimal point is the symbol that separates the integer part (written to the left of it) from the fractional part (written to the right of it). This symbol is accepted in ...