Decimals are a way of representing numbers that are not whole. When 1 is divided into 10 equal parts, they are called tenths. Tenths can be represented as decimals: One tenth = \( \frac{1}{10} \) = ...

Speaker: Not all numbers are whole numbers. Decimals are numbers that are between two whole numbers. So 1.4 is between 1 and 2. A decimal that starts with a 0 before the decimal point is less than 1.

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 ...

PART IV. of this monumental work, the third to be published, gives the logarithms of numbers between 40,000 and 50,000. These were obtained by adding the logarithm of 0.5 to the logarithms of all the ...