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 ...

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 ...

Decimal points are at least 150 years older than historians thought, according to newly unearthed notes from Venetian merchant Giovanni Bianchini, who practiced astrology in the 1440s. When you ...

A two-year-old overdosed after a misplaced decimal point allegedly caused medical staff to give him the wrong amount of medicine at a hospital in Florida. De'Markus Jeremiah Page, a child who had ...

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 ...