Apr 21, 2015 · Is there a notation for addition form of factorial? $$5! = 5\times4\times3\times2\times1$$ That's pretty obvious.

Aug 1, 2017 · The same principle applies to more than two segments: given a series of sub-trips at different speeds, if each sub-trip covers the same distance, then the average speed is the …

Of these, I'm personally rather fond of "round $\frac 1 2$ to nearest even number", also known as "bankers' rounding". It's also the default rounding rule for IEEE 754 floating-point arithmetic as …

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. …

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How does someone mathematically round a number to its nearest integer? For example 1.2 would round down to 1 and 1.7 would round up to 2

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 …

May 20, 2013 · Many years ago, I noticed that $987654321/123456789 = 8.0000000729\\ldots$. I sent it in to Martin Gardner at Scientific American and he published it in his column!!! My life …

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In the context of cryptography, I need to find the private key of a message and I need to use modular arithmetic. I understand how modular arithmetic using a clock with whole numbers. …