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In 1593, German mathematician Christopher Clavius made a small mark that would change mathematics forever. In a sine table in his treatise on the astrolabe, Astrolabium, he indicated the fractionation ...

Fractional decimal notation uses a decimal point (in some places a comma is used) to separate the integer part from the fraction of a quantity. However, the origins of this notation are not entirely ...

Decimal notation: Decimal currency uses decimal notation to express currency values, with whole numbers representing the basic unit and decimal fractions representing smaller units, such as 0.01 for ...