While desktop computers have tons of computing power and storage, some small CPUs don’t have a lot of space to store things. What’s more is some CPUs don’t do multiplication and division very well.

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We use a decimal point to separate units (ones) from parts of a whole, such as tenths, hundredths, thousandths, etc. \({0.1}\) is a tenth, \(\frac{1}{10}\), of a one ...

Dividing is the opposite of multiplying. When you divide a decimal number by 10, 100 and 1000, the place value of the digits in the number decrease. Place value is the position of a digit in a number.

I did a Q&A this week at the website io9, and one of the questions was something I get all the time: How can you add up a series of infinitely many numbers and get a finite answer? This question has ...

Swiss researchers at the University of Applied Sciences Graubünden this week claimed a new world record for calculating the number of digits of pi—a staggering 62.8 trillion figures. By my estimate, ...