French Scientist Pierre-Simon Laplace once said “The importance of Indian number system is that it gave humans the ability to add and subtract. This reason added weight to the fact that it was the ...

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Unlike the fractional representation of 1/3, the decimal version appears to add up to 0.9999999 (etc.) and never reach 1 because the decimal numeral system cannot represent the fraction of 1/3 with ...