A Wisconsin road has added a decimal point to its speed limit — in the hope that the unusual traffic sign will give drivers’ ...

A new (and very specific) speed limit has been posting in Wisconsin at the Outagamie County Recycling and Solid Waste ...

A recent discovery of documents dating back to the 15th century in Italy sheds new light on the history of the decimal point, revealing that this key element of mathematics was used much earlier than ...

The most common technique for activating a single decimal point is simply tieing its activation pin to ground. In most situations, only one decimal point is used because the display reading represents ...

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 ...

If you're using Excel to calculate monetary values, then you only have to worry about two decimal places in your numbers. Aligning your numbers to the right automatically lines up the decimal points ...

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. The decimal point was in use 150 years before ...