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VAN BRUMMELEN: With Bianchini, we can see that this decimal system came from real-life problems, like surveying and measuring. And a real-life problem at the time would have been the astrological ...

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The beauty of the decimal system, says Sarah Hart, a historian of maths at Birkbeck, University of London, is that it makes non-whole numbers as easy to calculate with as whole ones.

Now, Dr. Glen Van Brummelen, a professor at Trinity Western University in Canada, has discovered that Bianchini illustrated this system with a decimal point, the first ever.

The humble decimal point may have been invented about 150 years before we previously thought. ... Bianchini wrote out a trigonometric table of sines in which he uses his decimal system liberally.