Simple Math?

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[Apperceptions] I was talking with someone when this little piece of arithmetic came up: If a picture is worth a thousand words and my videos are...

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[En.wikipedia.org] Mathematics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Mathematics is not accountancy. Although arithmetic computation is crucialto accountants, their main concern is to verify that computations are correct through a system of doublechecks. Advances inabstract mathematics are mostly irrelevant to the efficiency of concrete bookkeeping, but the use of computers clearly doesmatter.

[Mocaedu.com] Aswath Weblog: Skype Math Anxiety: Yesterday Stuart did a simple arithmetic on Skype usage to ask (rhetorically) whether mobile operators can keep up with Skype usage. This note is not related to that question specific, but an attempt to understand the arithmetic.

[Citycomfortsblog.typepad.com] City Comforts Blog: Arithmetic for editors?: working out incorrectly?) such simple arithmetic nullifies his use of that particular factoid to support his argument. In itself this failure to "Do the Math!" is not that big a deal. I would have thought that Vesely, after the mistake, was brought to his attention would readily (and laughingly ”” hey!

[Blogs.msdn.com] Fabulous Adventures In Coding : Integer Arithmetic In VBScript ...: If you require integer arithmetic beyond 53 bits -- like, say, you're writing your own RSA implementation for some crazy reason, and need to do modular arithmetic on 1000+ bit integers -- then you'll need to use special techniques. Developing libraries that manipulate arbitrarily large numbers efficiently is definitely character-building, but I'd recommend that you do it in C or C# or some other hard-typed language designed for bit twiddling, not in VBScript.

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Posted at June 14, 2005 10:48 AM