The origins of the decimal point, something millions of people use daily, may be much older than we first thought. It was initially considered to have originated in 1593, having been used by ...

SIMON: He traced the decimal point back 150 years further than previously thought, to a little-known mathematician in Ferrara, Italy, named Giovanni Bianchini.

Columbia County’s 911 agency has learned the hard way that an errant decimal point can make an enormous difference. The Columbia 9-1-1 Communications District -- the agency that fields emergency ...

If you are just looking to get rid of the numbers after the decimal point, using the INT function with your RAND function should do the trick. Open a new Microsoft Excel 2010 spreadsheet.

Rather than requesting $0.08 or 8 cents, the placement of the decimal point may leave the Tri-County Ambulance District with 100 times less money than it hoped for from passage.