From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

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 ...

The origins of the decimal point, something millions of people use daily, may be much older than we first thought. It was initially considered to have originated in 1593, having been used by German ...

When we use decimals you can think of one whole divided into ten parts, they’re tenths. Or if you divide into one hundred parts, these are hundredths. So, how do we write them? Say hello to the ...

The aim of this guide is to show how to add decimals with a different number of decimal places. We will focus on the formal written method. Let's look at some examples. Set out the calculation, making ...

Last year, a Japanese mathematician and a U.S. grad student smashed the world record for calculating the value of Pi. After a manic 371 days of computing, Shigeru Kondo and Alexander Yee reached 10 ...