Las Vegas Sun

Dewey Decimal System still most common, but some libraries using updated classification

Dewey Decimal System Day today marks the birthday of librarian Melvil Dewey and celebrates the library classification system ...
Darkhorse Press

Dewey or don’t we? Why the Dewey Decimal System still matters

Melvil Dewey is the 19th century librarian who looked at the chaotic state of library shelves and said, essentially, ...
PC World

The Internet Needs a Dewey Decimal System

Long ago, our ancestors lived in caves and devised crude, rough tools to help them get through the day. One of those crude, rough tools was human language. Sure, language gave us such things as ...
Longmont Times-Call

Red Hawk Elementary library scraps Dewey Decimal System for bookstore model

ERIE — The newest elementary school in the St. Vrain Valley School District is scrapping the time-honored Dewey Decimal System and opting for a more user-friendly model for organizing books. Red Hawk ...
Business Insider

Here's How The World Would Be Different If We All Had 8 Fingers

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Scientific American

This Number System Beats Binary, But Most Computers Can’t Use It

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 ...