The Babylonians used separate combinations of two symbols to represent every single number from 1 to 59. That sounds pretty confusing, doesn’t it? Our decimal system seems simple by comparison, with ...
The Internal Revenue Service's decision to distribute economic stimulus payments based on the last two digits of your Social Security number got me wondering: How does the government assign these ...
Dun & Bradstreet provides unique identifiers used to designate businesses in contract coding, and GSA would like more freedom than it now has. General Services Administration officials plan to begin ...
Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. A new vendor is taking over management of the vendor verification system run through the General Services Administration, ending a ...
In positional systems, as mentioned earlier, the number represented is multiplied by the base each time you move to the left of a position and is always divided by the base each time you move to the ...
Rob Nicholls receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the Centre for International Finance and Regulation. He is a member of the Australian Labor Party. Charlotte Ann Penel receives ...