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Did you know that Dec. 10 is Dewey Decimal System Day? Me neither. Born on Dec. 10, 1851, Melvil Dewey is the librarian who invented the Dewey Decimal system of library classification. And in an age ...

Is the Dewey Decimal system dying out in public libraries? The Dewey Decimal Classification system has been used in U.S. libraries since the 1870s when Melvil Dewey developed it and put his name on it ...

MANY classifications have been evolved rather as an intellectual exercise than with any specific aim in view. Others have been made in the attempt to devise a so-called logical system. Most have ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Topical corticosteroid classification systems are inconsistent across countries. Experts proposed a universal ...

Students who have completed the requirements for a qualification should, on the recommendation of the relevant Board of Examiners, be awarded a Classification. a) The Final Weighted Mark must be ...

There is a weird behavior when user is typing a number with a precision higher than the one set: value is correctly truncated but the decimal separator is replaced by '.'. '.' is not a universal ...

THE fifth report of the International Committee on the Decimal Classification was presented by F. Donker Duyvis to the Tenth Conference of the Institut international de Bibliographie at the Hague on ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks to math historian Glen Van Brummelen about his finding that the decimal point appeared in the 1440s, earlier than thought. How did the decimal point come to be? - the dot that ...

Since the invention of printing, the problem of classifying knowledge has only increased. With digitization, the amount of data to be classified, produced by a larger and, above all, better-educated ...