I'm trying to mentally summarize the names of the operands for basic operations. I've got this so far: Addition: Augend + Addend = Sum. Subtraction: Minuend - Subtrahend = Difference. …

Oct 20, 2018 · I was confused a bit with a little arithmetic here. For instance $1÷1÷2$ and $2÷3÷7$. BODMAS isn't effective in this case. My question is this: $2÷3÷7$ Am I to divide …

Aug 27, 2014 · Tex goes between single or double dollar signs. \sqrt for square root, \frac or \dfrac for fractions. Anything longer than one character for formatted input goes in curly …

Yonatan: Most of the disagreement anyway is how to handle the case when the digit after the rounding digit is a 5; for the other digits, all seem to be in agreement. I guess the rules are …

May 12, 2015 · It's come to my attention that I don't actually understand what a square root really is (the operation). The only way I know of to take square roots (or nth root, for that matter) it to …

Recently I had this doubt about the order of precedence of mathematical operations multiplication and division. Given that we have a simple question like this 80 / 10 * 5 without parenthesis, what

Aug 14, 2014 · The term arithmetic underflow (or "floating point underflow", or just "underflow") is a condition in a computer program where the result of a calculation is a number of smaller …

Feb 19, 2014 · I have attached an image showing a Modulo 2 binary division. I can roughly understand the working below which is using XOR calculation but I am not sure how the …

May 19, 2018 · Thanks in advance for patience. I am trying to find an approximation for geometric mean. The one that is often mentioned is geometric mean = arithmetic mean - 1/2 * variance. I …

May 20, 2013 · Many years ago, I noticed that $987654321/123456789 = 8.0000000729\\ldots$. I sent it in to Martin Gardner at Scientific American and he published it in his column!!! My life …