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  2. Mathematics of bookmaking - Wikipedia

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    Mathematics of bookmaking. In gambling parlance, making a book is the practice of laying bets on the various possible outcomes of a single event. The phrase originates from the practice of recording such wagers in a hard-bound ledger (the 'book') and gives the English language the term bookmaker for the person laying the bets and thus 'making ...

  3. Ratio - Wikipedia

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    Ratio. In mathematics, a ratio (/ ˈreɪʃ (i) oʊ /) shows how many times one number contains another. For example, if there are eight oranges and six lemons in a bowl of fruit, then the ratio of oranges to lemons is eight to six (that is, 8:6, which is equivalent to the ratio 4:3). Similarly, the ratio of lemons to oranges is 6:8 (or 3:4) and ...

  4. Surreal number - Wikipedia

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    Addition, negation, and comparison are all defined the same way for both surreal numbers and games. Every surreal number is a game, but not all games are surreal numbers, e.g. the game { 0 | 0} is not a surreal number. The class of games is more general than the surreals, and has a simpler definition, but lacks some of the nicer properties of ...

  5. Relative change - Wikipedia

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    Relative change. In any quantitative science, the terms relative change and relative difference are used to compare two quantities while taking into account the "sizes" of the things being compared, i.e. dividing by a standard or reference or starting value. [1] The comparison is expressed as a ratio and is a unitless number.

  6. Calculator - Wikipedia

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    A modern scientific calculator with an LCD. An electronic calculator is typically a portable electronic device used to perform calculations, ranging from basic arithmetic to complex mathematics. The first solid-state electronic calculator was created in the early 1960s. Pocket-sized devices became available in the 1970s, especially after the ...

  7. Floor and ceiling functions - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, the floor function is the function that takes as input a real number x, and gives as output the greatest integer less than or equal to x, denoted ⌊x⌋ or floor (x). Similarly, the ceiling function maps x to the least integer greater than or equal to x, denoted ⌈x⌉ or ceil (x).

  8. Desmos - Wikipedia

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    Desmos was founded by Eli Luberoff, a math and physics double major from Yale University, [3] and was launched as a startup at TechCrunch 's Disrupt New York conference in 2011. [4] As of September 2012, it had received around 1 million US dollars of funding from Kapor Capital, Learn Capital, Kindler Capital, Elm Street Ventures and Google ...

  9. Silver ratio - Wikipedia

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    The silver ratio is a Pisot–Vijayaraghavan number (PV number), as its conjugate 1 − √ 2 = ⁠ −1 δS⁠ ≈ −0.41421 has absolute value less than 1. In fact it is the second smallest quadratic PV number after the golden ratio. This means the distance from δ n. S to the nearest integer is ⁠ 1 δ n.