It's easy to doubt that the things taught in math classes are important to everyday life, but in reality, small mathematical ...

Fixed-line users will soon be required to dial a full 10-digit number, even for local calls, if the government accepts the suggestion made by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).

What Is Binary? In computer science, binary is a fundamental concept and the most basic form of computer code.The binary number system consists of only two numbers: “0” (zero) and “1” (one).Every ...

Most numbers used in business are based on 10 – commonly known as the decimal system. One dollar is $1.00 and a half-dollar is $0.50. Time, of course, is an exception because it's based on 12.

Decimal notation describes numbers using the digits 1 through 10. Binary notation describes them using just two digits, 1 and 0, where each bit in a string represents a power of 2. The right-most bit ...

The library Dewey Decimal system groups books into 10 categories numbered 000 through 900, then divides even further within each subject to ... Some public libraries, however, feel it’s time for a ...

Bianchini was explaining how to multiply 10.4 by 8. “I realized that he’s using [the decimal point] just as we do, and he knows how to do calculations with it,” Van Brummelen tells Nature ...

The decimal point was in use 150 years before previously thought, research shows NPR's Scott Simon talks to math historian Glen Van Brummelen about his finding that the decimal point appeared in ...

The idea of breaking up whole numbers into pieces is very old, but most mathematicians prior to the Middle Ages used fractions. Astronomers did use decimals, but not in the familiar base-10 system ...

Describing the use of interpolation to find the sine and cosine of an arc, he casually drops the number 10.4, and explains how to multiply it by 8, giving the answer 83. The product of 10.4 and 8 is ...