Computers use a binary system, not decimal.
The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC), or Dewey Decimal System, is a proprietary library classification system first published in the United States by Melvil Dewey in 1876.
The Dewey Decimal Classification system is used to classify and organize books within a library collection. Public libraries, school libraries, and private/personal libraries typically use this system.
Melvil Dewey developed the Dewey Decimal System while working at the Amherst College Library in amherst, Massachusetts. He applied that system to teh Amherst College library as he was developing it, even before his first publication of the system in 1876.
Library of Congress Classification uses letters and numbers. This allows for more breakdowns of areas of knowledge than the Dewey Decimal System. Public libraries and school libraries use Dewey Decimal System. Most colleges and research libraries use Library of Congress.
The first people to use the decimal system and the number zero WERE NOT THE CHINESE! I am learning about this in school. The ancient Hindu's invented them during the Gupta Empire.
Computers use a binary system, not decimal.
Yes, South Africa does use the decimal system
No, they use the binary system
India invented the use of the 0 as a place holder and so the decimal system.
It is estimated that around 200,000 libraries worldwide use the Dewey Decimal System to classify their collections.
The library uses the Dewey Decimal Classification system to allocate numbers to books.
it was karen velasquez she was the first to do this if it wernt for her we wudnt have decimals tht would help us in our future :)
The Decimal System
Decimal number system
The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC), or Dewey Decimal System, is a proprietary library classification system first published in the United States by Melvil Dewey in 1876.
THe Gupta Empire