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  2. Floor and ceiling functions - Wikipedia

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    However, the same term, integer part, is also used for truncation towards zero, which differs from the floor function for negative numbers. For an integer n , ⌊ n ⌋ = ⌈ n ⌉ = n . Although floor( x + 1) and ceil( x ) produce graphs that appear exactly alike, they are not the same when the value of x is an exact integer.

  3. Repeating decimal - Wikipedia

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    The period of ⁠ 1 / p 2 ⁠ is usually pT p, where T p is the period of ⁠ 1 / p ⁠. There are three known primes for which this is not true, and for those the period of ⁠ 1 / p 2is the same as the period of ⁠ 1 / p ⁠ because p 2 divides 10 p−11. These three primes are 3, 487, and 56598313 (sequence A045616 in the OEIS). [12]

  4. Mathematical coincidence - Wikipedia

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    The same coincidence can also be expressed as = = (eliminating common factor of , so also correct to 2.4%), which corresponds to the rational approximation ⁡ ⁡, or / (also to within 0.4%).

  5. Order of operations - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] Thus, in the expression 1 + 2 × 3, the multiplication is performed before addition, and the expression has the value 1 + (2 × 3) = 7, and not (1 + 2) × 3 = 9. When exponents were introduced in the 16th and 17th centuries, they were given precedence over both addition and multiplication and placed as a superscript to the right of ...

  6. Percentage point - Wikipedia

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    A percentage point or percent point is the unit for the arithmetic difference between two percentages.For example, moving up from 40 percent to 44 percent is an increase of 4 percentage points (although it is a 10-percent increase in the quantity being measured, if the total amount remains the same). [1]

  7. Vinculum (symbol) - Wikipedia

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    It was also used to mark Roman numerals whose values are multiplied by 1,000. [2] Today, however, the common usage of a vinculum to indicate the repetend of a repeating decimal [ 3 ] [ 4 ] is a significant exception and reflects the original usage.

  8. Logarithmic scale - Wikipedia

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    Examples of equally spaced values are 10, 100, 1000, 10000, and 100000 (i.e., 10 1, 10 2, 10 3, 10 4, 10 5) and 2, 4, 8, 16, and 32 (i.e., 2 1, 2 2, 2 3, 2 4, 2 5). Exponential growth curves are often depicted on a logarithmic scale graph. A logarithmic scale from 0.1 to 100 The two logarithmic scales of a slide rule

  9. Mathematical constant - Wikipedia

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    The square root of 2, often known as root 2 or Pythagoras' constant, and written as √ 2, is the unique positive real number that, when multiplied by itself, gives the number 2. It is more precisely called the principal square root of 2, to distinguish it from the negative number with the same property. Geometrically the square root of 2 is ...