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 ...

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 ...

A Florida hospital has been accused of killing a 2-year-old boy with an "exceedingly high" dose of potassium phosphate that ...

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

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 ...

Is the Dewey Decimal system dying out in public libraries? The Dewey Decimal Classification system has been used in U.S. libraries since the 1870s when Melvil Dewey developed it and put his name on it ...

Knowing what the odds on a bet mean is sports betting 101. Odds are not uniform. There are three main systems of odds. American odds, fractional odds and decimal odds. You can read more about American ...

Long ago, our ancestors lived in caves and devised crude, rough tools to help them get through the day. One of those crude, rough tools was human language. Sure, language gave us such things as ...