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  2. Numeric precision in Microsoft Excel - Wikipedia

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    Excel graph of the difference between two evaluations of the smallest root of a quadratic: direct evaluation using the quadratic formula (accurate at smaller b) and an approximation for widely spaced roots (accurate for larger b). The difference reaches a minimum at the large dots, and round-off causes squiggles in the curves beyond this minimum.

  3. Ranking (statistics) - Wikipedia

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    Microsoft Excel provides two ranking functions, the Rank.EQ function which assigns competition ranks ("1224") and the Rank.AVG function which assigns fractional ranks ("1 2.5 2.5 4"). The functions have the order argument, [1] which is by default is set to descending, i.e. the largest number will have a rank 1. This is generally uncommon for ...

  4. Mediant (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    If two fractions a/c < b/d are adjacent (neighbouring) fractions in a segment of F n then the determinant relation = mentioned above is generally valid and therefore the mediant is the simplest fraction in the interval (a/c, b/d), in the sense of being the fraction with the smallest denominator.

  5. Glossary of probability and statistics - Wikipedia

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    The third quartile (3) is defined as the middle value halfway between the median and the largest value (maximum) of the dataset, such that 75 percent of the data lies below this quartile. Because the data must be ordered from smallest to largest in order to compute them, quartiles are a type of order statistic.

  6. Limit inferior and limit superior - Wikipedia

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    Since convergence in the discrete metric is the strictest form of convergence (i.e., requires the most), this definition of a limit set is the strictest possible. If (X n) is a sequence of subsets of X, then the following always exist: lim sup X n consists of elements of X which belong to X n for infinitely many n (see countably infinite).

  7. Order of magnitude - Wikipedia

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    Order of magnitude is a concept used to discuss the scale of numbers in relation to one another. Two numbers are "within an order of magnitude" of each other if their ratio is between 1/10 and 10. In other words, the two numbers are within about a factor of 10 of each other. [1] For example, 1 and 1.02 are within an order of magnitude.

  8. Floor and ceiling functions - Wikipedia

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    Given real numbers x and y, integers m and n and the set of integers, floor and ceiling may be defined by the equations ⌊ ⌋ = {}, ⌈ ⌉ = {}. Since there is exactly one integer in a half-open interval of length one, for any real number x, there are unique integers m and n satisfying the equation

  9. Real number - Wikipedia

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    Then, supposing by induction that the decimal fraction has been defined for <, one defines as the largest digit such that + /, and one sets = + /. One can use the defining properties of the real numbers to show that x is the least upper bound of the D n . {\displaystyle D_{n}.}