mathematics
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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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Classic Hacks: Quickly Multiply Big Numbers With A Visual Aid
If you’re anything like me, you may have forgotten how to do many types of mathematical equations without resorting to Google or a calculator app, though having a trick up your sleeve to do so can come in handy sometimes.
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Invisible Women: The Six Human Computers Behind The ENIAC
Until the late 20th century, a ‘computer’ was not a machine like the one you may be reading this on now, but a job title — literally, someone who makes computations. This term can be found all the way back to the 17th century, but one of the most important eras for the human computer…
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How Fuzzy Logic Could Stop The Rise Of The Machines
Amid all the dire warnings that machines run by artificial intelligence (AI) will one day take over from humans we need to think more about how we program them in the first place.
