I'm trying to mentally summarize the names of the operands for basic operations. I've got this so far: Addition: Augend + Addend = Sum. Subtraction: Minuend - Subtrahend = Difference. Multiplicati...
Arithmetic could roughly be described as working with the numbers we know within a particular system of numbers, and is often related in some way to working with things called integers (whole numbers) and fractions.
Geometric and arithmetic are two names that are given to different sequences that follow a rather strict pattern for how one term follows from the one before. An arithmetic sequence is characterised by the fact that every term is equal to the term before plus some fixed constant, called the difference of the sequence. For instance, $$ 1,4,7,10,13,\ldots $$ is an arithmetic sequence with ...
I am trying to understand the underlying mathematics of two's complement. Googling the topic gives me a lot of articles on how to invert the digits and add one, and why computers use this system ra...
In mathematics, modular arithmetic is a system of arithmetic for integers, where numbers "wrap around" upon reaching a certain value So the point of modular arithmetic is to do our normal arithmetic operations wrap around after reaching a certain value.
Similarly, an arithmetic sequence is one where its elements have a common difference. In the case of the harmonic sequence, the difference between its first and second elements is $\frac {1} {2}-1=-\frac {1} {2}$.
Yonatan: Most of the disagreement anyway is how to handle the case when the digit after the rounding digit is a 5; for the other digits, all seem to be in agreement. I guess the rules are application-dependent!
I am reading about Arithmetic mean and Harmonic mean. From wikipedia I got this comparision about them: In certain situations, especially many situations involving rates and ratios, the harmonic...
