{"id":183251,"date":"2024-02-21T09:42:11","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T15:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/the-decimal-point-is-150-years-older-than-historians-thought"},"modified":"2024-02-21T09:42:11","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T15:42:11","slug":"the-decimal-point-is-150-years-older-than-historians-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/the-decimal-point-is-150-years-older-than-historians-thought","title":{"rendered":"The Decimal Point Is 150 Years Older than Historians Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-decimal-point-is-150-years-older-than-historians-thought2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The origin of the decimal point, a powerful calculation tool, has been traced back to a mathematician who lived during the Italian Renaissance.<\/p>\n<p>By <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/author\/jo-marchant\/\">Jo Marchant<\/a> &amp; <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/author\/nature-magazine\/\">Nature magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The origin of the decimal point, a powerful calculation tool, has been traced back to a mathematician who lived during the Italian Renaissance. By Jo Marchant &amp; Nature magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}