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19 lut 2024 · The decimal point was invented around 150 years earlier than previously thought, according to an analysis of astronomical tables compiled by the Italian merchant and mathematician Giovanni...
29 lut 2024 · But new evidence suggests the decimal point may be 150 years older than previously thought: A 15th-century Venetian merchant named Giovanni Bianchini appears to have used the mathematical...
In the 1440s, a young Italian merchant by the name of Giovanni Bianchini penned several astronomical works that made extensive and increasingly refined use of decimal points. Van Brummelen convincingly argues Clavius merely copied the decimal point from Bianchini, who should be credited for his mathematical innovation.
24 lut 2024 · How did the decimal point come to be? - the dot that divides whole numbers. Historians are revising its origin story.
24 lut 2024 · SIMON: He traced the decimal point back 150 years further than previously thought, to a little-known mathematician in Ferrara, Italy, named Giovanni Bianchini. VAN BRUMMELEN: He was using the decimal point, actually, in two different contexts.
21 lut 2024 · A new study has found that the decimal point dates back to the 1440s – about 150 years earlier – first appearing in the writings of Italian mathematician Giovanni Bianchini.
22 lut 2024 · 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.
