KASHIHARA, Nara -- A wooden tablet unearthed in 2001 from the ruins of Japan's late seventh to early eighth century capital Fujiwara-kyo here was part of a multiplication table chart used by ...

CHANDIGARH: To improve computational skills of schoolchildren, Punjab’s State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) is resorting to the rote. While directing all government schools to ...

Q: How much is 230 times 10? A: The number of years humans have been calculating with decimals. A crack team of scholars in Beijing learned this last year when they solved a 23-centuries-old puzzle.