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2. Fraction - Wikipedia

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   Some sources include all rendering of fractions as case fractions if they take only one typographical space, regardless of the direction of the bar. [30] Shilling or solidus fractions: 1/2, so called because this notation was used for pre-decimal British currency , as in "2/6" for a half crown, meaning two shillings and six pence. While the ...

3. De Thiende - Wikipedia

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   Stevin, however, did not use the notation we use today. He drew circles around the exponents of the powers of one tenth: thus he wrote 7.3486 as 7 3 (1) 4 (2) 8 (3) 6 (4). In De Thiende Stevin not only demonstrated how decimal fractions could be used but also advocated that a decimal system should be used for weights and measures and for coinage."

4. Arithmetic - Wikipedia

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   Decimal fractions like 0.3 and 25.12 are a special type of rational numbers since their denominator is a power of 10. For instance, 0.3 is equal to ...

5. Sexagesimal - Wikipedia

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   With so many factors, many fractions involving sexagesimal numbers are simplified. For example, one hour can be divided evenly into sections of 30 minutes, 20 minutes, 15 minutes, 12 minutes, 10 minutes, 6 minutes, 5 minutes, 4 minutes, 3 minutes, 2 minutes, and 1 minute. 60 is the smallest number that is divisible by every number from 1 to 6 ...

6. Decimal - Wikipedia

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   Place value of number in decimal system. The decimal numeral system (also called the base-ten positional numeral system and denary / ˈ d iː n ər i / [1] or decanary) is the standard system for denoting integer and non-integer numbers. It is the extension to non-integer numbers (decimal fractions) of the Hindu–Arabic numeral system.

7. Positional notation - Wikipedia

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   Decimal fractions were first developed and used by the Chinese in the form of rod calculus in the 1st century BC, and then spread to the rest world. [6] [7] J. Lennart Berggren notes that positional decimal fractions were first used in the Arab by mathematician Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi as early as the 10th century. [8]