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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. Multiplicati...

Is Heath's book really a translation? It seems more like a book ABOUT Diophantus's "Arithmetica", not the translation of the actual book. There's just an "abstract" from the books, mostly an abbreviated description of the problems and their solutions which doesn't seem to be a 1:1 translation from Bachet's Latin version or the original Greek one. Unless I'm stupid and I …

May 20, 2013 · Many years ago, I noticed that 987654321/123456789 = 8.0000000729 … 987654321 / 123456789 = 8.0000000729. I sent it in to Martin Gardner at Scientific American and he published it in his column!!! My life has gone downhill since then:) My questions are: Why is this so? What happens beyond the " 729 729 "? What happens in bases other than 10 10?

I'm looking for clear mathematical rules on rounding a number to n n decimal places. Everything seems perfectly clear for positive numbers. Here is for example what I found on math.about.com : Rule One Determine what your rounding digit is and look to the right side of it. If that digit is 4, 3, 2, 1, 4, 3, 2, 1, or 0 0, simply drop all digits to the right of it. Rule Two Determine what your ...

Are there some good overviews of basic formulas about addition, multiplication and exponentiation of cardinals (preferably available online)?

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 absolute value than the computer can actually store in memory.

My daughter is stuck on the concept that $$2^0 = 1,$$ having the intuitive expectation that it be equal to zero. I have tried explaining it, but I guess not well enough. How would you explain the

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