In every number, each place to the left is 10 times greater and each place to the right is 10 times smaller. The decimal point separates the whole numbers from the parts (or fractions) of a number. An ...

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 ...

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 ...

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