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Simplification is the process of replacing a mathematical expression by an equivalent one that is simpler (usually shorter), according to a well-founded ordering. Examples include:
Simple quintuple meter can be written in 5 4 or 5 8 time, but may also be notated by using regularly alternating bars of triple and duple meters, for example 2 4 + 3 4.Compound quintuple meter, with each of its five beats divided into three parts, can similarly be notated using a time signature of 15
A ratio is often converted to a fraction when it is expressed as a ratio to the whole. In the above example, the ratio of yellow cars to all the cars on the lot is 4:12 or 1:3. We can convert these ratios to a fraction, and say that 4 / 12 of the cars or 1 / 3 of the cars in the lot are yellow.
The rows with minterm m(4,12) and m(10,11,14,15) can now be removed, together with all the columns they cover. The second prime implicant can be 'covered' by the third and fourth, and the third prime implicant can be 'covered' by the second and first, and neither is thus essential.
Let's assume that this CD has an early withdrawal penalty equal to 12 months of interest — meaning it'd cost you $400 to break it. Moving your funds to a new 5.00% APY CD would earn $3,152 over ...
In 493 AD, Victorius of Aquitaine wrote a 98-column multiplication table which gave (in Roman numerals) the product of every number from 2 to 50 times and the rows were "a list of numbers starting with one thousand, descending by hundreds to one hundred, then descending by tens to ten, then by ones to one, and then the fractions down to 1/144 ...
In mathematics, an algebraic expression is an expression built up from constants (usually, algebraic numbers) variables, and the basic algebraic operations: addition (+), subtraction (-), multiplication (×), division (÷), whole number powers, and roots (fractional powers).
In mathematics, the infinite series 1 / 4 + 1 / 16 + 1 / 64 + 1 / 256 + ⋯ is an example of one of the first infinite series to be summed in the history of mathematics; it was used by Archimedes circa 250–200 BC. [1]