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Lipscombe Trevor Davis (Director Director Catholic University Of America Press)
Lipscombe Trevor Davis (Director Director Catholic University Of America Press) - Quick(Er) Calculations How To Add Subtract Multiply Divide Square And Square Root More Swiftly - Hardcover
Lipscombe Trevor Davis (Director Director Catholic University Of America Press) - Quick(Er) Calculations How To Add Subtract Multiply Divide Square And Square Root More Swiftly - Hardcover
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Description: Finalist of the 2022 Prose Awards How fast can you calculate? Would you like to be faster? This book presents the time honored tricks and tips of calculation from a fresh perspective to boost the speed at which you can add whether a couple of numbers or columns so long an accountant may faint. Find out how to subtract multiply divide and find square roots more quickly. What's more this book gives suggestions for how to find answers that are "good enough" for tricky tasks like dividing by 17. It includes brand new ways to multiply and divide irrational numbers such as pi e the square root of 2, and the golden ratio. It has sections devoted to ancient mathematics and the techniques we can borrow from previous and other cultures in order to calculate more quickly. Examples some serious some fun come from everyday life or from history like hot dog eating competitions the Vatican's cricket team the molecular weight of the molecule with the world's longest name and the amount of people taken by Henry VIII to arguably history's biggest party the Field of the Cloth of Gold. In an age of timed multiple - choice questions the swifter you can sum or rule out wrong answers the better you will do. If you love to play with numbers this book will be recreational reading. And if you ever wonder whether simple arithmetic problems can crop up in everyday life this book provides a fresh perspective.
Title: Quick(Er) Calculations How To Add Subtract Multiply Divide Square And Square Root More Swiftly
Author(s): Lipscombe Trevor Davis (Director Director Catholic University Of America Press)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198852650
Pages: 192 Pages, 4 Grayscale Line Figures
Publication Date: 7/6/2021
Category: Educational: Mathematics & Numeracy
Description: Finalist of the 2022 Prose Awards How fast can you calculate? Would you like to be faster? This book presents the time honored tricks and tips of calculation from a fresh perspective to boost the speed at which you can add whether a couple of numbers or columns so long an accountant may faint. Find out how to subtract multiply divide and find square roots more quickly. What's more this book gives suggestions for how to find answers that are "good enough" for tricky tasks like dividing by 17. It includes brand new ways to multiply and divide irrational numbers such as pi e the square root of 2, and the golden ratio. It has sections devoted to ancient mathematics and the techniques we can borrow from previous and other cultures in order to calculate more quickly. Examples some serious some fun come from everyday life or from history like hot dog eating competitions the Vatican's cricket team the molecular weight of the molecule with the world's longest name and the amount of people taken by Henry VIII to arguably history's biggest party the Field of the Cloth of Gold. In an age of timed multiple - choice questions the swifter you can sum or rule out wrong answers the better you will do. If you love to play with numbers this book will be recreational reading. And if you ever wonder whether simple arithmetic problems can crop up in everyday life this book provides a fresh perspective.
Title: Quick(Er) Calculations How To Add Subtract Multiply Divide Square And Square Root More Swiftly
Author(s): Lipscombe Trevor Davis (Director Director Catholic University Of America Press)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198852650
Pages: 192 Pages, 4 Grayscale Line Figures
Publication Date: 7/6/2021
Category: Educational: Mathematics & Numeracy