numbers
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10 Tips To Improve Your Mental Maths Ability
Calculators are awesome, but they’re not always handy. More to the point, no one wants to be seen reaching for the calculator on their mobile phone when it’s time to figure out a 15 per cent gratuity. Here are ten tips to help you crunch numbers in your head.
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Sneaky Trick Uses Maths Magic To Guess Your Cards
Maths is basically magic. So it’s no surprise that a clever use of the Fibonacci numbers — a series of numbers (1, 2, 3, 5, 8, etc.) where each number is the sum of the two preceding numbers — and a super-slick shuffling method can combine for a card trick that makes it impossibly easy…
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Do Numbers Really Exist?
Here’s a nice, simple topic for first thing on a Friday morning: do numbers really exist? Well, do they?
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Why Petrol Is Priced In Tenths Of Cents In The US
The practice of pricing fuel with a fraction of a penny is thought to have started around the 1930s. While we can’t be sure who was the first to price fuel this way, it seems to have become relatively commonplace across the United States all the sudden around the same time. So what happened? In…