The Assurance Magazine, and Journal of the Institute of Actuaries, Vol. 4, No. 3 (1854), pp. 216-236 (21 pages) This item is openly available as part of an Open JSTOR ...
Leonardo Bonacci – known as Fibonacci, the son of Bonaccio – lived from 1170 to about 1245 AD. It is he who we must thank for ...
Celebrate the birthday of Melville Dewey on #NationalDeweyDecimalSytemDay. Source: Pixabay The inventor of the Dewey Decimal System of library classification, Melville Dewey, was born on 10 December ...
Multi-base arithmetic blocks (MAB) are the most frequently used physical materials for teaching about decimal numbers, despite published reservations about their appropriateness. This paper presents ...
The natives of a remote Polynesian Island invented a binary number system, similar to the one used by computers to calculate, centuries before Western mathematicians did, new research suggests. The ...