Dewey Decimal System Day today marks the birthday of librarian Melvil Dewey and celebrates the library classification system ...

Melvil Dewey is the 19th century librarian who looked at the chaotic state of library shelves and said, essentially, ...

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 ...

Historians have discovered what may be the world's first decimal point, in an ancient manuscript written 150 years before its next known appearance. There have been many ways to split integers, but ...

Decimal points are at least 150 years older than historians thought, according to newly unearthed notes from Venetian merchant Giovanni Bianchini, who practiced astrology in the 1440s. When you ...