Lower-precision floating-point arithmetic is becoming more often used in recently growing hardware, moving beyond the usual IEEE 64-bit double-precision and 32-bit single-precision formats. Today, ...

Chris Gallant, CFA, is a senior manager of interest rate risk for ATB Financial with 10 years of experience in the financial markets. Geometric mean provides a better measure of portfolio performance ...

At the lowest point of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln characterized the core factor between victory and defeat as finding a general who understood the “awful arithmetic” of war. War is a contest of ...

Kayleigh Ward and Richard Monteith take issue with the idea that calculators have rendered a proper education in maths unnecessary I’m baffled by Simon Jenkins’ insistence that calculators render a ...

Dr. JeFreda R. Brown is a financial consultant, Certified Financial Education Instructor, and researcher who has assisted thousands of clients over a more than two-decade career. She is the CEO of ...

The simple definition of a mean is that of a numeric quantity which represents the center of a collection of numbers. Here the trick lies in defining the exact type of numeric collection, as beyond ...

Consider this sequence of numbers: 5, 7, 9. Can you spot the pattern? Here’s another with the same pattern: 15, 19, 23. One more: 232, 235, 238. “Three equally spaced things,” says Raghu Meka, a ...