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 ...

When we use decimals you can think of one whole divided into ten parts, they’re tenths. Or if you divide into one hundred parts, these are hundredths. So, how do we write them? Say hello to the ...

I learned the following trick for memorizing the value of e from my colleague, Gene White. It never fails to impress calculus students (given a wide enough definition of “impress”). I learned the ...

contains only numbers, and sometimes a decimal point and/or minus sign. When they are read into a SAS data set, numeric values are stored in the floating-point format native to the operating ...