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  2. Mental calculation - Wikipedia

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    The first step in approximating the common logarithm is to put the number given in scientific notation. For example, the number 45 in scientific notation is 4.5 × 10 1, but one will call it a × 10 b. Next, find the logarithm of a, which is between 1 and 10. Start by finding the logarithm of 4, which is .60, and then the logarithm of 5, which ...

  3. Division algorithm - Wikipedia

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    Long division is the standard algorithm used for pen-and-paper division of multi-digit numbers expressed in decimal notation. It shifts gradually from the left to the right end of the dividend, subtracting the largest possible multiple of the divisor (at the digit level) at each stage; the multiples then become the digits of the quotient, and the final difference is then the remainder.

  4. Division by two - Wikipedia

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    An orange that has been sliced into two halves. In mathematics, division by two or halving has also been called mediation or dimidiation. [1] The treatment of this as a different operation from multiplication and division by other numbers goes back to the ancient Egyptians, whose multiplication algorithm used division by two as one of its fundamental steps. [2]

  5. Repeating decimal - Wikipedia

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    The reason is that 3 is a divisor of 9, 11 is a divisor of 99, 41 is a divisor of 99999, etc. To find the period of ⁠ 1 / p ⁠, we can check whether the prime p divides some number 999...999 in which the number of digits divides p − 1. Since the period is never greater than p − 1, we can obtain this by calculating ⁠ 10 p−11 / p ...

  6. Long division - Wikipedia

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    1 2 5 (Explanations) 4)500 1 0 ( 5 - 4 = 1) 2 0 (10 - 8 = 2) 0 (20 - 20 = 0) In Bolivia , Brazil , Paraguay , Venezuela , French-speaking Canada , Colombia , and Peru , the European notation (see below) is used, except that the quotient is not separated by a vertical line, as shown below:

  7. Scientific notation - Wikipedia

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    For comparison, the same number in decimal representation: 1.125 × 2 3 (using decimal representation), or 1.125B3 (still using decimal representation). Some calculators use a mixed representation for binary floating point numbers, where the exponent is displayed as decimal number even in binary mode, so the above becomes 1.001 b × 10 b 3 d or ...

  8. Decimal separator - Wikipedia

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    For example, 10 million (1 crore) would be written as 1,00,00,000. In Pakistan, there is a greater tendency to use the standard western system, while using the Indian numbering system when conducting business in Urdu. In Sweden, the currency sometimes used the colon as decimal separator (1 234 567:89).

  9. Fixed-point arithmetic - Wikipedia

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    A fixed-point representation of a fractional number is essentially an integer that is to be implicitly multiplied by a fixed scaling factor. For example, the value 1.23 can be stored in a variable as the integer value 1230 with implicit scaling factor of 1/1000 (meaning that the last 3 decimal digits are implicitly assumed to be a decimal fraction), and the value 1 230 000 can be represented ...