Francisco Pellos - Research Article from Science and Its Times

This encyclopedia article consists of approximately 1 page of information about Francisco Pellos.
Encyclopedia Article

Francisco Pellos - Research Article from Science and Its Times

This encyclopedia article consists of approximately 1 page of information about Francisco Pellos.
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fl. 1450-1500

Italian mathematician who anticipated the use of the decimal point. In 1492, Pellos published Compendio de lo abaco, a book on commercial arithmetic that used the decimal dot (.) to indicate division by 10.

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