In the past, experts developed calculating machines that worked with three digits, a ternary system, that they hoped would ...

Imaginary numbers may seem abstract or even whimsical at first, but they are far from being mere mathematical curiosities. In ...

Zero as a number on its own is also extremely important in math. Zero is the "additive identity" — any time I add a number to zero, I get that number back: 3 + 0 = 3.

In the 6th century BCE, the Greek alphabet used 24 letters. To make numbers, the Greeks added three more symbols ( accounts differ as to whether these were resurrected older letters or newly designed ...

Creating the numerals When Bartley was a math teacher in Kaktovik in 1994, his middle school students came up with the numbers to represent the Iñupiaq oral counting system.

These devices remained in use for centuries after Rome fell. I’ve been talking about the Romans, but remember, their numbering system was still the only one that numerate medieval Europeans had ...