- 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 Bianchini in the 1440s. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00473-2 11 comments science
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