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Submitted URL is a newsletter linking to a Nature blurb linking to the actual paper, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hm.2024.01.001 "Decimal fractional numeration and the decimal point in 15th-century Italy" (Glen Van Brummelen, 2024). That paper's abstract:

"The earliest known appearance of the decimal point was in the interpolation column of a sine table in Christopher Clavius's Astrolabium (1593) [...] We trace Clavius's use of decimal fractional numeration and the decimal point back to the work of Giovanni Bianchini (1440s), whose decimal system was a distinguishing feature of his calculations in spherical astronomy and metrology."




Sorry, my bad. I grabbed the wrong link. Thanks for correcting.




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