Maths on the Back of an Envelope: Clever Ways to (roughly) Calculate Anything
Maths on the Back of an Envelope: Clever Ways to (roughly) Calculate Anything
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Author(s): Eastaway, Rob
ISBN No.: 9780008444495
Pages: 208
Year: 202104
Format: UK-B Format Paperback (Trade Paper)
Price: $ 24.83
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

Does that statistic make sense? How much will this round of drinks come to? And what are the chances of winning the lottery? Twice? Learn how to do complex maths with nothing but the back of an envelope, a pencil and some good old-fashioned brain power. Doing mathematics without a calculator seems like an unnecessary feat in the 21st century. These clever little electronic devices have helped to take away the drudgery of arithmetic, and given all of us the power to perform in a few seconds what might previously have taken hours to work out. But much of the time, we don't need the exact answer with its endless decimal points - we just need to know whether something is in the right ballpark. Rob Eastaway's clever mathematical techniques do exactly that, as he takes an entertaining look at how to figure without a calculator.


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