Quick(er) Calculations

Quick(er) Calculations

How to add, subtract, multiply, divide, square, and square root more swiftly

Lipscombe, Trevor Davis

Oxford University Press

05/2021

192

Dura

Inglês

9780198852650

15 a 20 dias

364

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Preface
Introduction
Challenge
1: Arithmetical Advice
2: Speedier Sums and Subtractions
Interlude I: The Magic of 111,111
3: Accounting for Taste -- Adding Columns Quickly
Interlude II: Checking, Check Digits, and Casting out Nines
4: Quicker Quotients and Pleasing Products -- Multiply and Divide by Specific Numbers
Interlude III: Doomsday
5: Calculations with Constraints -- Multiply and Divide by Numbers with Specific Properties
Interlude IV: Multicultural Multiplication
6: Super Powers -- Calculate Squares, Square Roots, Cube Roots, and More
7: Close-Enough Calculations -- Quick and Accurate Approximations
Interlude V: Approximating the Number of Space Aliens
8: Multiplying Irrationally
The Grand Finale
Further Reading
Appendix I: Calculating Doomsday
Appendix II: The Squares from 1 to 100
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