The Dow Jones Industrial Average has been around for a long time — 130 years, to be exact. It’s America’s original stock index, and despite its eccentricities (such as its inclusion of only 30 stocks) ...

Sherry Preston: Are you curious about the Dewey Decimal system? The Dewey Decimal system was designed to organize library books by putting a number on the book spine. Sherry Preston is the public ...

For decades, the retail industry has faced the same persistent problems of empty shelves, pricing errors and inventory discrepancies. Despite having spent billions of dollars on data analytics and ...

Jean-Charles Pelland's work has been made possible by financial support from the ‘QUANTA: Evolution of Cognitive Tools for Quantification’ project, which has received funding from the European ...

Most of us have little trouble working out how many milliliters are in 2.4 liters of water (it's 2,400). But the same can't be said when we're asked how many minutes are in 2.4 hours (it's 144).

DGCA has launched auto-generation of computer numbers for flight crew candidates via its Pariksha portal, using DigiLocker for document verification to speed up licensing and reduce manual work. New ...

Tim Fang is a digital producer at CBS Bay Area. A Bay Area native, Tim has been a part of the CBS Bay Area newsroom for more than two decades and joined the digital staff in 2006. Service at all Bay ...

Recently M. Morris Mano presented a method for performing Boolean OR, AND and NOT operations by means of arithmetic and conditional transfer operations in a decimal computer lacking builtin logical ...

In a previous paper [1], B. Dimsdale and I reported on the use of programmed Hamming codes for error correction on a 7090. The paper generated much interest, but ...

Discusses the importance of number systems, tracing their origins from early human counting methods using fingers to modern numeral systems. It explains the decimal system, place value, and how ...

The film "Computer and the Mind of Man : Universe of Numbers" explores the evolution of tools that enhance human control over the environment, focusing on the development of computers as advanced ...