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  2. Floating-point arithmetic - Wikipedia

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    In computing, floating-point arithmetic ( FP) is arithmetic that represents subsets of real numbers using an integer with a fixed precision, called the significand, scaled by an integer exponent of a fixed base. Numbers of this form are called floating-point numbers. [1] : 3 [2] : 10 For example, 12.345 is a floating-point number in base ten ...

  3. Benford's law - Wikipedia

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    A broad probability distribution of the log of a variable, shown on a log scale. Benford's law can be seen in the larger area covered by red (first digit one) compared to blue (first digit 8) shading. A narrow probability distribution of the log of a variable, shown on a log scale.

  4. Demographics of the United States - Wikipedia

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    In 1900, when the U.S. population was 76 million, there were 66.8 million white Americans in the United States, representing 88% of the total population, 8.8 million Black Americans, with about 90% of them still living in Southern states, and slightly more than 500,000 Hispanics.

  5. Half-precision floating-point format - Wikipedia

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    In computing, half precision (sometimes called FP16 or float16) is a binary floating-point computer number format that occupies 16 bits (two bytes in modern computers) in computer memory. It is intended for storage of floating-point values in applications where higher precision is not essential, in particular image processing and neural ...

  6. Paper Money Value by Serial Numbers: Determine Your ... - AOL

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    The bill’s digits had a sum of 48, and 8% of eight-digit serial numbers sum to at least 48. It had four unique digits, and 9.3% of eight-digit serial numbers have four or fewer digits.

  7. Rule of 78s - Wikipedia

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    The denominator of a Rule of 78s loan is the sum of the integers between 1 and n, inclusive, where n is the number of payments. For a twelve-month loan, the sum of numbers from 1 to 12 is 78 (1 + 2 + 3 + . . . +12 = 78). For a 24-month loan, the denominator is 300. The sum of the numbers from 1 to n is given by the equation n * (n+1) / 2.

  8. Octal - Wikipedia

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    764 8 = 7 × 8 2 + 6 × 8 1 + 4 × 8 0 = 448 + 48 + 4 = 500 10. For double-digit octal numbers this method amounts to multiplying the lead digit by 8 and adding the second digit to get the total. Example: 65 8 = 6 × 8 + 5 = 53 10. Method of successive duplication. To convert octals to decimals, prefix the number with "0.".

  9. Fibonacci sequence - Wikipedia

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    Fibonacci sequence. In mathematics, the Fibonacci sequence is a sequence in which each number is the sum of the two preceding ones. Numbers that are part of the Fibonacci sequence are known as Fibonacci numbers, commonly denoted Fn . The sequence commonly starts from 0 and 1, although some authors start the sequence from 1 and 1 or sometimes ...