A two-year-old boy arrives at the hospital with a virus and low potassium. His family expect monitoring, fluids, and a ...

A family is suing a University of Florida (UF) hospital after a doctor allegedly deleted a critical decimal point from a ...

A family in Florida is suing a local hospital after they say their 2-year-old son was accidentally given a fatal dose of ...

Math historian Glen Van Brummelen came across decimal points in Giovanni Bianchini's manuscript, Tabulae primi mobilis B. Van Brummelen / Historia Mathematica, 2024 For years, historians thought ...

A Florida mother is suing the University of Florida Health system after her 2-year-old son died from what she alleges ...

The decimal point was invented around 150 years earlier than previously thought, according to an analysis of astronomical tables compiled by the Italian merchant and mathematician Giovanni Bianchini ...

A 2-year-old was unintentionally killed by doctors at a hospital after a "critical decimal point" was allegedly deleted.

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 ...

So, the number \(5.743\) is said to have 3 decimal places. The number \(5.1492\) has four decimal places, while \(4.34\) has two decimal places. To round a number to a given number of decimal places, ...

Melvil Dewey, the inventor of the Dewey Decimal System, was born on December 10, 1851. Among other things, Dewey was a self-proclaimed reformer, so when working for the Amherst College library in the ...