Microsoft's Visual Basic programming language has variable types for three different kinds of numbers: integer, floating-point and decimal. Integer variables range from a short 2-byte format to a long ...

Most numbers used in business are based on 10 – commonly known as the decimal system. One dollar is $1.00 and a half-dollar is $0.50. Time, of course, is an exception because it's based on 12. The day ...

If we, like cartoon characters, had four fingers on each hand, it might have had a surprising effect on how we look at the world. Our number system is a decimal system, or base ten system, meaning ...

Long ago, our ancestors lived in caves and devised crude, rough tools to help them get through the day. One of those crude, rough tools was human language. Sure, language gave us such things as ...

Create a table or use an existing one. Type =DEC2BIN(A2, B2) into the cell you want to place the result. Then press the Enter key to see the result. To see the other results in the table, drag the ...

Fractions are enough to make you cry if you’re not a math whiz, but Microsoft Excel handles them very well. In fourth-grade math, you learned fraction basics: Fractions are a numerical representation ...