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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 ...

A book classification system for libraries that was created by Melvil Dewey in the 1870s and copyrighted in 1876. Used to this day in thousands of libraries worldwide, mostly for non-fiction content, ...

The long-time Dewey Decimal System method of organizing books soon won't be the main organizing method at the Deschutes Public Library, to be replaced in coming months with a topic-based system to ...