The 2,300-year-old matrix is the world's oldest decimal multiplication table. From a few fragments out of a collection of 23-century-old bamboo strips, historians have pieced together what they say is ...

In addition to its basic spreadsheet functions, Microsoft Excel also allows writing formulas to perform functions on existing data. Using a quick equation, you can convert an existing set of time data ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Companies seeking to provide ...

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 ...

In every number, each place to the left is 10 times greater and each place to the right is 10 times smaller. The decimal point separates the whole numbers from the parts (or fractions) of a number. An ...

Historians have discovered what may be the world's first decimal point, in an ancient manuscript written 150 years before its next known appearance. There have been many ways to split integers, but ...