So a little arithmetic will suffice to solve this simple problem: We begin with the husband, who gets 25%. The son gets two shares and three daughters each get one share of the remaining 75%. …

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 …

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 …

Jan 10, 2020 · Thank you @Henry.. I finally see it. So basically arithmetic is having a support for the random variable that can be say, modeled, as some arithmetic progression or series. And …

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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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By no-changer I refer, of course, to the unit element. That this can be added/multiplied to anything without resulting in a change should be accepted. I am unsure wether this approach helps …

(3) As you begin doing mental arithmetic with larger numbers, you will realize that the primary obstacle is not speed but space: you will run into the problem that you cannot reliably store …