| Napier is also credited with creating one of the earliest calculating machines and with the first systematic use of the decimal point. |
| Write down the whole part as the next component of the continued fraction and invert the part after the decimal point. |
| The template is removed and the original decimal point erased leaving a resultant number in hectometers. |
| Make all entries without a dollar sign or comma but with a decimal point and cents. |
| But a misplaced decimal point in his publication led to a figure 10 times too high. |
| The part after the decimal point in number r is often called the fractional part of r and written as frac. |
